Podcast page returns “No input file specified.”

Hi there. If you’ve activated the plugin and previously had a /podcast page on your website then to re-enable that page you can disable the plugin then re-save your permalinks in the Settings area of your wp-admin dashboard. This will re-enable the previous /podcast page you had.

Let us know how it goes.

Thanks for the reply. I tried what you suggested but still doesn’t work. I disabled the plugin, then in Settings I switched the permalinks to Plain, saved, then switched them back to Post Name and saved. With the plugin disabled I can save a page with the name ‘podcast’ but that page still returns “No input file specified” After I re-enable the plugin I can no longer save the page with the name ‘podcast’ and my previously saved page got renamed to ‘podcast-2’ and the ‘podcast’ page still returns “No input file specified.”

Any other help with this?

Hi there. Sorry about the bit of delay in getting back to you on this. Are you wanting to have the existing /podcast page you created prior to instaling the plugin to remain active? And then to have your podcasts displayed somewhere else? If this is the case then the easiest way forward would be to rename the slug that the /podcast/ content URLs currently reside. You can do this with the guidance here: https://support.castos.com/article/32-modifying-podcast-urls – changing the podcast post URL slug to something like episodes would then free up the existing /podcast page for you to edit and manage like a typical page.

In doing this (as I think you’ve probably seen) you’ll need to both Resave your permalink settings and edit the existing /podcast page slug and resave that page.

Hope this helps and let us know how it goes.

Hi Craig,

Thanks for the repose. Still no luck. I even went into the mySQL and manually deleted all the posts/pages relating to /podcast. As soon as I create a new page named /podcast it always returns “No input file specified.” If the plugin is de-activated then I can access the /podcast page and edit it but still get the “No input file specified” when viewing the page. then as soon as I re-activate the plugin it changes the page name to /podcast-2

https://theactingcenterla.com/podcast/

Changed slug to ‘episodes’
https://theactingcenterla.com/episodes/

Thanks
Michael

Hi Michael,

Just to circle back on this. The behavior you’re describing is what we would expect outside of the “No input file specified”. If you have the plugin disabled you can create/edit a page at /podcast but once the plugin is enabled it creates that /podcast page as a kind of custom query of all of your podcast posts (a sort of Archive page). Because this is not really a page but rather the result of a query that page slug is not editable as a regular page would be.

At this point are you ok with having the episodes living under the /episodes/ slug then?

Hi Craig,

Yes having the episodes live under the /episodes/ slug would be fine but I still can’t access the /podcast page and have it work whether the plugin is enabled or disabled. Is there no way to have the plugin enabled and create a custom /podcast page?

Hello @futurex5,

You can certainly create a custom page for your podcasts and display them using the series shortcode or the new Spotify embed block in 5.0 if you are pushing to Spotify. You can also place individual episodes on the page using the episode player shortcode but that won’t be dynamic.

But you may want to try solving the “No Input File Specified Error” as it may affect other areas of your site. Make sure you are updated to 5.0.3, reset the permalinks and if all else fails, try checking your .htaccess file to ensure it’s properly configured for mod_rewrite.

Let us know how you make out.

Hi Iviolini,

Thanks for the response. Creating the page is not the problem, it’s displaying the /podcast page. After installing this plugin I have never been able to display the /podcast page even when the plugin in disabled. I have also never seen the “No Input File Specified Error” message prior to installing this plugin and that message doesn’t show up anywhere else on the site. I just noticed your plugin says: Compatible up to: 4.9.9, so is this a version 5 bug? I’m on 5.0.3. What I’m really trying to do is just display this page:

https://theactingcenterla.com/podcast-3/

with this URL:

https://theactingcenterla.com/podcast/

This is what is the mod_rewrite section of .htaccess:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Any help with this?

Hello!

We are not seeing this in our test environments as a 5.0.3 bug. Have you tried changing your theme in a local environment to see if it is a theme conflict?