skemsley

I’ve been having this problem for the past several weeks, finally went to the Akismet site yesterday and explained the problem in their comment form. Today, I received an email apologizing for the problem and saying that it’s fixed, and I’ve successfully added comments to other WP blogs now so everything seems to be okay.

There might have been problems with them responding in the past, but looks like that’s a better solution now than trying to train it indirectly.

KDubb, thanks for the solution, but I’m no longer a customer of Netfirms. Although the permalinks issue was major, the killer for me was the downtime on my site and the excruciatingly slow MySQL performance.

Seeds, that’s a nice fantasy, but it doesn’t actually work on Netfirms. If you change the options as stated, all links become broken and just link to the home page. That’s the whole point of this post. You have to have “index.php” in the URL or it doesn’t work.

Netfirms technical support explicitly told me that they do not provide AllowOverride on .htaccess, which is why this doesn’t work; until they can support that, we’re all screwed on this issue as long as we keep hosting on Netfirms.

I have three blogs on my Yahoo hosting account, with no problem. Just make sure that you put each of them in a different subdirectory, and don’t select more than one of them to be your site’s home page.

Torley, I would have never gone with Netfirms if I had known about the permalinks problem, and I’ve also had some serious performance problems. I have another WP blog on godaddy.com, which I know has its own set of problems, but permalinks are not one of them: it behaves pretty well and is about the same price. As for Netfirms, I signed up for a year because it dropped the price further, and since it’s for a non-profit organization’s site that I run, I can’t just forget it and pay again for another hosting company, so I think that I’m stuck on Netfirms for the year. Won’t be renewing, however.

I’m having the same problem. I just set up a WordPress 2.0.4 site on Netfirms, have identical settings to a WP 2.0.4 site that I have setup elsewhere (GoDaddy), and the permalinks do not work unless I add index.php to the structure, which is definitely not what I want.

BigRedBall666, you can check out the broken permalinks on my test site https://www.awstoronto.com, although I’m playing around with it so am occasionally switching back to the index.php structure to try things out. All of the navigation at the top is broken except for the first link (Upcoming Events), since it is the home page, and the last link (Blog) which is hard-coded for now.

As an aside, I’m also concerned about Netfirms’ slowness, I have ftp performance problems but also really serious database performance problems, which impacts loading any of the pages on my WP site.