Permalink structure does not work except standard

  • Resolved Irian

    (@irian)


    13 years, 11 months ago

    Hi all,
    I have been using WordPress for sometime now, and I am very enthousiastic! But when I tried to use an other permalink structure, it seems not to work.

    When setting the permalink structure to any of the other options within the permalink panel, the links all look like this:

    Setting: year, month, day, name
    –> https://www.tolvsbo.se/wordpress/index.php/ata/
    Setting: year, month, name
    –> https://www.tolvsbo.se/wordpress/index.php/ata/
    Setting: numerically
    –> https://www.tolvsbo.se/wordpress/index.php/ata/

    Ofcourse this is an example, other menu-items have other pagenames.

    When clicking the link, the error I get is the following:

    CGI Error

    The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers.

    The second weird thing is that a second order menu-item gets the following url:
    https://www.tolvsbo.se/wordpress/index.php/ata/dagtid, whatever setting is chosen.

    I have been looking on google and this forum for any similar problems but couldn’t find an answer on my problem. Can you help me?

    Thank, regards,
    Irian

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  • Pages simply use the page title – irrespective of what permalink structure you use. Only Posts are affected by the custom structure.

    Have you tried:

    – deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem? If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

    – switching to the Twenty Ten theme to rule out any theme-specific problems?

    – resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin? Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

    – re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folders from a fresh download of WordPress?

    Thread Starter Irian

    (@irian)

    Hi Esmi,
    thanks for the answer. I tried all you suggested, but the permalinks still don’t work in any way!

    I have deactivated and deleted all the plugins, switch the theme to Twenty Ten and reuploaded the admin and include folders.

    Any more sugestions?

    Check with your hosts that mod_rewrite is running on your server.

    Thread Starter Irian

    (@irian)

    well, probably it is not. The server is (I think and have already send an email to my host) a windows server (IIS 5). Which means mod_rewrite is not possible.

    But when using the almost pretty permalink structure (index.php/…) it should be possible right?

    Thanks!
    Irian

    See this Codex entry.

    Thread Starter Irian

    (@irian)

    To bad, this did not work either. I added

    cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1
    cgi.force_redirect = 0

    to my php.ini file. I am not running on IIS7 so I can not use the other option mentioned.

    Thanks,
    Irian

    As this is server related, you might want to try posting a new topic entitled something like “Permalinks and IIS5” in the hopes of attracting the right attention. Sadly IIS servers are not my area of expertise.

    Thread Starter Irian

    (@irian)

    Okee, I’ll try contacting my host first, and will post something like that later on.
    Thanks a lot!
    greets,
    Irian

    Thread Starter Irian

    (@irian)

    It was possible to change my server to UNIX, so now the permalinks work!
    One weird thing still exists, I set the permalink to year/post, but the links show just the post. Any idea why?

    Thanks!
    Irian

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