divinewrite

Hi,

I’ve tried numerous times to backup using the Database Backup Plugin, but can never get it to work. I’m trying to download to my computer, and every time I click ‘Backup!’, I get the following error:

“The backup file could not be saved. Please check the permissions for writing to your backup directory and try again.”

Can anyone tell me what I’ve done wrong?

Also, it doesn’t give me any option to specify the backup directory on my computer. ???

Thanks in advance.

Glenn Murray
Copywriter

Oh… and I’m still getting that 404 File Not found error when I append the /feed/ to the URL. Any ideas why?

Cheers.

Thanks again,

Still couldn’t get the image to display. Not sure why. Think I might give it up for now. It looks like it’s gonna remove the number of entries anyway, and I’m not sure I wanna do that.

In general, are people who grab feeds from blogs comfortable doing so without overt and/or graphical links?

Cheers.

Thanks HandySolo,

I’ve been trying to add the feed_image param, but I’m not sure how to make it work alongside the sort_order param. What’s the syntax when you’ve got two parameters (I couldn’t find this info on the linked page)?

Cheers.

Ok. I’ve now upgraded to 2.0.4 and permalinks and tag rewrite are both working. However, when I append “/feed/” to the end of my url (after clicking on a tag), I get the Error 404 – File Not Found error.

Further, is there some way to add a blog-wide, dynamically updating link? e.g. “RSS Feed for this Tag” (much as this forum has a “RSS feed for this thread” link). I’d also like to add one for Category.

Cheers.

Problem solved. It was missing the following line:

RewriteRule ^tag/(.+)$ /blog/index.php?tag=$1 [QSA,L]

Thanks again for your help. I got the answer from the phorum you linked to.

Cheers.

Hi vkaryl,

Thanks again for your help. I’ve upgraded, but still, when I click on a tag, I get Error 404 – Not Found. The code in the .htaccess file is as follows:

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

# END WordPress

Thanks again vkaryl. I’ve upgraded to 2.0.4 and this has solved the problem.

cheers.

Thanks vkaryl,

I’m using WordPress as supplied by my web host. Is it generally possible to upgrade in this sort of arrangement?

cheers.

Thanks HandySolo,

Unfortunately, although I’ve got permalinks working for the rest of my blog, I haven’t yet mastered the url rewriting for tags (that’s one of my other posts on this forum…). So when I add the /feed/ to the end of the url, it just tells me I’m looking for something that doesn’t exist.

Further to this, is there some way to add a link? Or is that not really necessary? When someone wants the RSS feed, are they most likely to just append the /feed/ to the URL or are they more likely to look for an RSS link?

Cheers.

Glenn Murray, Divine Write. [email protected]

Brilliant!

Thanks so much, everyone, for your help. Think I’ll install WordPress and have a shot at it. I’m sure I’ll be back here before too long…

Cheers and thanks again.

Glenn Murray

Sorry… I meant the value of inbound links in increasing your search engine rank. I suppose the real question is, if/when other people link to my blog, would they be linking to mysite.com/blog.htm (or similar). ie. The link points to my domain.

And thanks again for your help.

Cheers.

Glenn Murray

Thanks heaps, moshu!

That’s good news. One other thing… Am I right in assuming that the search value (or PR for want of a better term) of inbound links is attributed to my site / domain, as the blog is a sub-domain?

Thanks again for your help!

Cheers.

Glenn Murray