Multiple blogs vs. permalinks

  • My goal: create a development (and dbms backup) version of my blog. Please note in the following, that at my host luxsci.com, your root is required to be ~/www/.

    So far I have partial success as follows:

    – https://seekerblog.com/test/ links to the dev instance #2 (which is also running a test Rin theme)

    BUT

    – opening a specific UNIQUE post ==> nothing found (i.e., a post that has been added to instance#2 since the cloning).

    – when opening a specific post, or a category set, the permalink appears to work, e.g.,

    https://seekerblog.com/test/archives/20051109/in-france-its-not-jihad-and-never-has-been/

    displays the correct content, but using the Production #1 theme.

    Further, a category link resolves to the entries in the Production #1 DBMS, though the browser-displayed link appears correct, e.g.,

    seekerblog.com/test/archives/category/cia/

    I have configured the Development instance as follows:

    – created dbms instance#2, cloned production#1 into #2
    – installed WP1.5.2 into a subdirectory of my root,
    seekerblog.com/www/test/
    – pointed ~/www/test/wp_config to instance#2
    – left alone $table_prefix = ‘wp_’ due to separate dbms
    – set the #2 WordPress address to https://seekerblog.com/test

    My .htaccess is identical in both directories:

    seekerblog.com/www/.htaccess
    seekerblog.com/www/test/.htaccess

    And .htaccess follows:

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /index.php/$1

    I’m certain the solution to this problem is in the forum archives, but I’ve not been able to search it up.

    Suggestions mucho appreciated! Steve D.

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    On the test blog, make sure that the two URL values in Options/General are both https://seekerblog.com/test and set your permalinks again in Options/Permalinks.

    Thread Starter adagiomarine

    (@adagiomarine)

    Many thanx macmanx – revising .htaccess to the autogenerated rule set seems to be the fix.

    I kept the short-form .htaccess in ~/test/ because my recall was that using the WP ruleset caused problems in the main blog. A helpful forum advisor suggested the rule set above.

    I don’t remember what the problem was. And I don’t understand why the short-form .htaccess “fixed it”.

    This time I will keep better notes ??

    Steve

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