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I’d like someone to answer. Thank you.

WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE ANSWER MY QUESTIONS:

I’ve been trying and trying to get this question answered (see below) but can’t get a reasonable answer.

Here’s the problem

I’m using 2.0.1. When I go to Options/Writing/Update Services and enter a new ping list and then click Update Options, it goes to the blog itself or gets a page cannot be found error.

The result is the ping list cannot be changed through the admin panel.

I’ve built lots of blogs and have never had this problem before and am having this problem only on a new server I’m using. I’ve tried this dozens of times on various days and have never changed my browser or isp … I have this problem on one server but not others.

I asked on the forum how to fix this and MichaelH suggested I go into the mysql database and manually put in the new ping list and that worked.

Here’s my question I keep asking:

Do you know why this error is occurring? Will I have to always make changes to the ping list through the database? What can’t I make these changes through the admin panel?

Should I contact the webhost … is it their version of wp 2.0.1 or is there something else that is wrong?

What should I do?

Would someone answer this question … after reading the previous posts?

I’m running 2.0.1. I did what you said and went to https://www.yourwebsite.com/wp-admin/options.php and deleted the values in ping_sites. When I clicked on Update Settings I got page cannot be displayed error.

So I made the change in the database and that worked.

Do you know why this error is occurring? Will I have to always have to make changes to the ping list through the database? What a pain!

Posted: 2006-03-12 02:07:49 #

Please answer my questions above regarding why this is happening and if I will have to always edit mysql instead of using wp-admin??????????

I’m running 2.0.1. I did what you said and went to https://www.yourwebsite.com/wp-admin/options.php and deleted the values in ping_sites. When I clicked on Update Settings I got page cannot be displayed error.

So I made the change in the database and that worked.

Do you know why this error is occurring? Will I have to always have to make changes to the ping list through the database? What a pain!

https://yoursite/yourblog/wp-rss2.php works!

What is the URI … is that different from the URL?

I don’t use pingomatic … I use a list of ping sources … any way I can find out if wp is pinging them?

Help me understand … what are trackbacks? What are pingbacks?

Thanks! For those who want to know the resolution of the /feed/atom/ file not found problem … I had forgotten to put htaccess files with the permalink rewrite rules in some of my wp directories.

My htaccess file is in my root directory … it’s the only one. I don’t allow wp to write to it … instead I enter the structure and wp gives me the code which I copy and paste into htaccess.

I cannot delete my htacces file in the root directory … it has commands much more than wp to run other apps.

Do you mean I need an htaccess file in every wp directory?

I know sp 1.2 allows commands like https://garden-decor.us/?cat=1 and https://garden-decor.us/?m=200508 but wp 1.5 and above does the subdirectory thing which doesn’t work

I’m telling you /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
does not work.

Please help.

Yes, my host does provide mod_rewrite.

When I used structure /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
if you clicked on Archive July or August or if you clicked on Category Loan Information … you got page cannot be displayed.

Did you not see this?

So then I used structure /index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

and put in the new rewrite rules in htaccess. Then when I went to the blog I got Internal Server Error.

So I took out all of the permalink rewrite rules for this blog from htaccess and now the Archives for July and August and the Categories links work. So I guess if you use permalinks you cannot use Archive and Category links.

Correct?

I changed the permalink structure to /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ and inserted the new rewrite rules in htaccess. I still get page cannot be displayed for archive and category links. Please visit my blog
https://www.aimbright.com/loan-advice to see problems.

Should I use

/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

OR

/archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

How do I get Categories links to work?

Ok /archives/%postname%/ solved the first problem, now I see I have other problems that may be related. When I click on an Archive month link it goes to https://mydomain.com/wpname/archives/2005/07/ and I get page cannot be displayed error … I look at my wp installation and there is no archives, etc. folders! I have the same problem with categories … when I click on a category link … it goes to https://mydomain.com/wpname/archives/category/categoryname/ but I don’t have the archives, category folders. I am installing 1.5.1.3 wp blogs using Fantastico. Why doesn’t the install set up the archives, category, year, month, etc. subdirectories?