Mark Kehn

You may want to set this as RESOLVED up above.

rofl don’t mind me /giggles

I was only skimming through posts when I came to this one. I won’t presume to know what he meant but I will guess he possibly meant using a static title such as:

<title>Seattle Real Estate-Seattle Washington Real Estate</title>

Nevermind, please completely ignore the post of mine directly above this one, but answer this instead if you would:

How exactly do I verify that my blog is auto-pinging via the ping-o-matic?

I was wondering if that was same thing but I only have ping-o-matic listed there, nothing else. Is there something else I should include as well, perhaps you may suggest what you yourself use?

I’m glad you brought this up anyhow because I had a question regarding that. I’ve had my blog for about 4 months now and other than visitors to my site who I myself invited, how exactly do I verify that my blog is auto-pinging via the ping-o-matic? I have yet to encounter a new and unknown visitor so as you can imagine I’m basically all by my lonesome in this great wide blogosphere.

Why wouldn’t the WP Devs include this for the common user who uses their full version?

Yeah you got me there rofl. I forgot about that. In my mind I was thinking everything worked from the theme folder where the files were located.

Thanks for the friendly reminder.

Yeah Hi podz,

rofl I have tried over and over again and I finally now just figured out how to do the code so I removed that part from my post above.

Maybe it’s just me but below where it said “put code between backticks…” the word code to me, implied the em strong etc so I was putting those inbetween the backticks not the text itself that I wanted marked up.

Anyhow, thanks for the quick reply. Were you saying the Favorites thing is the fault you all know of, or the feed issue or both? I’m not sure which you were implying as being the ‘fault’.

I dont know if this will help, I am only taking a stab in the dark with this answer of mine.

I imagine your code either in your searchform.php file or wherever you have your search form has this:

<form id=”searchform” method=”get” action=”<?php echo $_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’]; ?>”>

try one of these instead, I use the last one myself for a more global search:

<form id=”searchform” method=”get” action=”<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>/index.php”>

<form id=”searchform” method=”get” action=”<?php bloginfo(‘home’); ?>/”>

Haha! Woot!!!

After upgrading to WordPress 2.0.1 all my permalink problems appear to be gone! I can now use the date and time permalink structure like everyone else without using /index.php/ in my URL.

I knew there was a bug and that it wasn’t me, sweet deal!

My Thanks go to all the WP devs. Awesome work!

STATUS: RESOLVED

Haha! Woot!!!

After upgrading to WordPress 2.0.1 all my permalink problems appear to be gone! I can now use the date and time permalink structure like everyone else without using /index.php/ in my URL.

I knew there was a bug and that it wasn’t me, sweet deal!

My Thanks go to all the WP devs. Awesome work!

STATUS: RESOLVED

Haha! Woot!!!

After upgrading to WordPress 2.0.1 all my permalink problems appear to be gone! I can now use the date and time permalink structure like everyone else without using /index.php/ in my URL.

I knew there was a bug and that it wasn’t me, sweet deal!

My Thanks go to all the WP devs. Awesome work!

STATUS: RESOLVED

Hi Taryn,

Are you then saying that you had the exact same problem as me or was your situation different?

I have already re-installed this once but I forgot why other than I totally lost access to my blog. I fubar’d the database I think, I can’t recall exactly ROFL.

Anyhow, the point I am getting at is even before the re-install I had permalink issues and even now after-the-fact I still have it. I guess I’m saying I don’t relish re-doing it all again if I don’t have to, not because I am afraid of the job but because I am not confident it will change anything for me.

Thanks for your reply though.

Regards,

~MAK

Hello again Scaturan,

I gave your suggestion a whirl and I get the same results but in a round-about way as I decribed up above.

I stated previously that if I changed AllowOverride to something other than None I would get 403 errors unless I also added Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch to the top of my .htaccess file in which case it would give me 404 errors instead.

Well trying your suggestion gave me the same results, meaning I got 404 errors instead of 403 but this time I didn’t have that added line in my .htaccess file.

I just don’t get why this can’t play nice with everyone. What’s odd is four out of my nine PAGE pages work, I haven’t the foggiest idea why they work but everything else returns a 404 error.

Anyways, I am no further along in this than before and I am hoping you will find another rabbit to pull out of your hat. You are the only one responding to my request for help which I understand many people are tired of hearing about this persistant and dreaded PERMALINK issue.

Anyhow I’m still a no-go here.

Regards,

MAK

Hi Scaturan,

Don’t shake your head in frustration at me but my httpd.conf file does not have a <VirtualHost> block at all.

I host my own server. I am using Apache 2.0.52 with PHP 5.1.

<Directory “E:/My Files/Server Files”>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Options Indexes MultiViews
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

This is my <Directory> block which happens to be all default values created when I installed Apache the first time.

As far as the AllowOverride None up above goes, if I change it to anything besides None, WP 2.0 gives me 403 forbidden error and won’t let me access my blog at all.

If I leave it as AllowOverride All I get the 403 error, but if I also add Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch to the top of my .htaccess file, the 403 errors go away but instead give me 404 errors for all post links and most PAGE links.

I am at a loss as what to do. I do wish to make it AllowOverride ALL so that I can also use User Authentification apps such as login scripts etc.

Here’s an update:

I don’t know if I am getting closer to a solution or further from it.

I changed AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All.

This gives me 403 forbidden error everytime.

If I keep AllowOverride All and also add
Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch to the top of my .htaccess file I no longer get the 403 forbidden error but every page other than my homepage of blog gives me a 404 error instead.

All my post links give me a 404 error. Some of my PAGE links work and some don’t though I don’t know what the difference is that makes some work and some not work.

So is there something else I need to do or am I just further away from solving this?

~MAK