Pretty Permalinks are Breaking My Site

If you’d like to see what the blog/site is supposed to look like, please visit:

https://www.martyrdesign.com and click on THE BLOG in the top menu.

I see you get some imgs and some are 404.

Are you sure those 404 images are at new host?

The martyrosamond.com site is a clone of martyrdesign.com that I did today. But, I double checked just now to make sure and they are there.

Is it a root folder permissions thing? What should the root (/) directory be? Right now it’s set to xxx. What should my site directory be set to?

Its not a root perm thing; else nothing will work; the page works and many images work

What about the permissin of imgs itself; this one does not work; what is its perm; how is it different from the imgs that works?

https://www.martyrosamond.com/the-blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/blog_kodachrome_header_thmb.jpg

Permissions on that image are set to 777.

Something else strange, and this is the first thing I’ve noticed that’s broken on one of the sites but not the other.

martyrosamond.com/contact

martyrdesign.com/contact

The “More of My Work” sidebar widget shows up on martyrdesign.com. I just checked, the Contact page on martyrosamond.com is set to have the More of My Work sidebar widget show up, but it’s not there.

None of your /the-blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/

images work

So if its not permissions, it must be path to the imgs

Add a tiny file to search folder in that path ; then access it directly from your web broswer address bar

I hope somehow while doing this you will realize the mistake with the images.

I wish it were that simple. The paths are solid because the site works fine until I turn on Pretty Permalinks. When I have the site set to Ugly Permalinks, all images load. So, the paths are fine.

Go to the Herbie Hancock blog post:

https://www.martyrosamond.com/2010/herbie-hancocks-70th-birthday/

and you’ll see the NextGen gallery at the bottom is broken, too.

[nggallery id=3]

That’s supposed to be a nice LightView gallery down there.

Like this:

https://www.martyrdesign.com/?p=80

Embarrased (-;

One possible explanation;

other perma’s work; yyyy/mm does not ; exactlty your case …

https://www.martyrosamond.com/the-blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/blog_kodachrome_header_thm

another

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/2850/404-when-fetching-image-from-wp-content-uploads

Thank you so much. You got me studying my image paths and it turns out that was the problem after all. I had some paths that were missing the “/” in front of them, and that was causing the breakage. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

OK

Please mark thread as resolved so that

– others with similar problem can see it as resolved and will read this thread for help if they have similar problem

– people providing help see it as resolved and will not waste time reading this post.

Site working as it should with Pretty Permalinks here…

https://www.martyrdesign.com

Before I hit resolved, let me clear up what the error was (totally my fault).

Instead of putting the full path for my images (e.g.; https://www.martyrdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/filename.jpg), I was using shortened paths (i.e.; /wp-content/uploads/2011/02/filename.jpg), but had forgotten to put the “/” in front of a couple paths, and that was breaking things. I’m still not sure why it affected the NextGen galleries, but they popped into place when I corrected the paths. Also, not quite sure why the info in the sidebar of my Contact page wasn’t showing up, but it’s OK now. The more I learn, the less I know it seems at times. Thanks again for making me think this through.