danielmaxwell

Well, I downloaded the plugin called WordPress Automatic Upgrade and stepped through it (going from version 2.2 to 2.8.2) and now my blog works (I am not redirected to the web site home page – the blog front page loads correctly).

The next step will be to upgrade the theme to the latest version. I have been using Atahualpa version 2.21 but will try to upgrade to 3.4.2.

Here goes… it worked!!! Now I have WordPress 2.8.2 and Atahualpa 3.4.2 working without redirecting the blog front page to the web site home page (www.maxwell.cc versus https://www.maxwell.cc/wordpress)

But I must say that I did download another plug that has to be mentioned.

Disable Canonical URL Redirection
I will copy the text of this plugin here. It was activated while I still was in WordPress 2.2 and Atahualpa 2.21. Maybe this was the secret, I don’t know. I have to say that at the end of the wp-admin/wp-upgrade I was redirected to the web site home page. But then I pressed forward and activated the plugins through the automatic process continuation link and then things worked normally.

Anyway, here is the text of that plugin that might have helped…

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Disable Canonical URL Redirection
Description: Disables the “Canonical URL Redirect” features of WordPress 2.3 and above.
Version: 1.0
Author: Mark Jaquith
Author URI: https://markjaquith.com/
*/

remove_filter(‘template_redirect’, ‘redirect_canonical’);

?>

Well, HansUmstranja, I salute you for trying more than 30 times to get this all sorted out. It seems like you and I have one thing in common. Concentric. We both have tried this on Concentric and that is where things start to get interesting. I have requested a paid service by their Professional Services team to upgrade me from 2.2.3 to 2.8.2 and we shall see how they do.

Secondly, I believe that WordPress version 2.8.2 and 2.2.3 are writing permalink changes to an .htaccess file that we cannot see, hidden in the same directory probably as our MySql directory and not within our reach. I believe that this is a Windows Server (chmod won’t work, it has a VDE environment though I am not professional enough to know differences).

I notice that samboll (moderator) suggested the same thing to you as he did to me but then things get left alone after that.

The way things are supposed to work and the way they work are two different things and we need a utility to track down where the file is that the permalinks are being stored, when the .htaccess file is written to, where that file is, and whether or not the writing was really successful or if WordPress reports it as being successful but isn’t really.

For example, when I upgraded the database or upgraded WordPress initially, there were about 5 errors but then WordPress said it had successfully done the upgrade. Well, I knew that not to be true and so now I don’t have confidence when WordPress says that changes are successfully updated.

I noticed that the original WordPress .htaccess file had simply the following line in it and nothing else and it was never modified since the first installation in 2007.

ForceNoProxy ON

That’s all.

Well, anyway, I think most people host WordPress on unix based servers evidently and Concentric is a bit different.

By the way, I have FrontPage extensions turned off and that enables CGI scripts. That doesn’t make a difference though.

I am sorry you have had to go through so much.

I am glad to write about this though and hope that others will also make some comments.

I have gone back to WordPress 2.2 and have restored my data because this was taking me over three days to sort out. I will have to wait until getting help to move or upgrade to 2.8. Sorry.

The problem was that when trying to access my blog, it would redirect me to the site home page. I could access the wp-admin etc… but not the front page at all.

After using Concentric’s built in Security editor, the .htaccess file looks like this:

AuthName /web/wordpress Access File
AuthType Basic
<Limit GET POST PUT DELETE HEAD>
require anymember
</Limit>

This is located in the /wordpress/ directory.

So, the file is there but I don’t understand why WordPress can’t access it and why the web browser keeps going back to my web site home page instead of the blog front page. I do have the ability to log into the wp-admin folder and then edit things about the site like permalinks and pages and posts and users and so on, but I just can’t see the blog’s front page. It keeps directing it back to the site’s home page!

Please help.

I can’t change the read/write settings for just one file in Concentric web hosting from what I can tell. They use a VDE system (not unix) or something like that.

Through the Concentric File Security system on their web site I am able to set user permissions for the directory to any user and any domain but then the web browser gives a 500 error when trying to browse to the https://www.maxwell.cc/wordpress/wp-admin folder.

I don’t see how to set permissions for “wordpress” to read and write files because I don’t know what user “wordpress” is. I have tried all users I can think of such as my name, admin, and sql. I have not been able to get WordPress to change the file after changing permalinks in the admin-settings-permalinks.

I wish there was a utility to help me through this process instead of having to use all these awkward tools to manually do it.

Also, each time I change or update the permalinks in WordPress it says it is successful whereas it hasn’t done anything, sometimes an .htaccess file doesn’t even exist and WordPress reports a successful change. I don’t get it.

I didn’t find .htaccess in the wordpress root directory. I did go to admin->settings->permalinks and changed from default to the next choice (Day and name) and saved the settings. Still, the file .htaccess is not present. It seems like WordPress is not saving it!

Thank you for your efforts. If you have further ideas, I would appreciate knowing.

https://www.maxwell.cc/wordpress/