I think I finally solved this. I made a permalink to the blog page at www.mysite.com/index. Now the blog page and all static pages work in WordPress 2.7.1.
I think the situation I had is quite common. I had a web site at https://www.mysite.com with a directory www.mysite.com/blog that contained the WordPress installation. I then decided to put the entire web site in WordPress to use it like a CMS at www.mysite.com/.
Here were my steps (this site is using WP in Dutch, so I hope I got it right for English):
– I used the documentation at https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress to move the blog to the root directory www.mysite.com/
– Using Administration > Pages > Create New, I created:
— a “Hoofdpagina” (“Home” in English) page with a permalink https://www.mysite.com/hoofdpagina/
— a “Blog” page with a permalink https://www.mysite.com/index/.
— Both pages use the default “kubrik” page template without modifications.
– Using Administration > Settings > Reading. I selected:
— Front page displays
— A static page (select below)
— Front page: Hoofpagina
— Posts page: Blog
– In my menus I linked:
— Hoofdpagina (“Home” in English) to <a href="/index.php" title="Hoofdpagina">Hoofdpagina</a>
— Blog to <a href="/index/" title="Blog">Blog</a>
Notes:
– I don’t like the following in browsers, but can live with it:
— The blog is shown as https://www.mysite.com/index/
— The Hoofdpagina (Home) is shown as https://www.mysite.com
– Some older posts on this forum talk about modifying templates, but I did not get this working and it should not need to be done in WP 2.7.
– I found it useful to use the “kubrik” default theme to get this working before dealing with other template issues.
– I have no idea if this had anything to do with moving my WordPress installation to https://www.mysite.com/blog to https://www.mysite.com/
– I had to fix all image paths, but that had to do with moving the blog, rather than the problem with the static front page.
– I happen to be using Spry menu’s, but this should not matter.
