Permalinks in IE7 Broken

  • I’ve moved over 5,000 entries from Movable Type 4.1 to WordPress 2.5. The permalinks work in Firefox and Safari, but not IE7 or IE6. When I click on an Entry, the page shows a “Whoops That page isn’t here”.

    Here’s a sample link: https://www.aeropause.com/wordpress/2008/04/chains-of-olympus-goes-a-bit-too-far/

    I’ve changed all the internal links to reflect MT’s link structure as close as possible before the import that being: /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/.

    I’ve used the guides found in the forums here on how to migrate a site from MT to WP, too.
    The thing is, when I create a new Entry in WP and check out the permalink in IE7, it works. So it has something to do with the way the link is structured that IE doesn’t like.

    Have you heard of this issue before?
    thanks,
    shane

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  • Same for opera. Same for Firefox.

    Works in Fx, Opera, and IE7 here, probably because your site is too slow causing timeout (periodically).

    Thread Starter 3eamus

    (@3eamus)

    Actually I figured this out. I had to republish my entries in WP in order for IE 6 and 7 to see the permalinks…but…oh my gosh, how does one publish a bunch of posts at a time instead of 1 at a time? I don’t see this option anywhere *gulp*

    Rebuild your permalink structure….

    Thread Starter 3eamus

    (@3eamus)

    How does one do that?

    Thread Starter 3eamus

    (@3eamus)

    Ok if that is simply done by hitting save again in permalinks options, then that didn’t do it ??

    Any other tricks?

    I have found the problem/issue that may cause this problem

    Over at https://www.ire.org/extraextra/ we are moving to WordPress from an older version of Moveable Type in the process of building a new website and we had this similar problem. On Moveable Type we had around 2,200 posts which we imported into WordPress. Once the posts were imported, we found that our permalink structures at first would not work. This was solved when we allowed our apache server to write to the .htaccess file. Furthermore, after the server problem was fixed, our permalinks on archived pages would only work when we were logged in as administrators. After logging out of the wordpress admin area, our permalinks in regards to individual page posts and archive pages, would show a “post not found” or a “not here” where the post should normally go.

    The problem was that the importing script within WordPress does not actually publish the posts when they are imported. It tries to publish them, and will show inside of the MySQL databases that they are published, but within WordPress, they are not actually published. MT to WordPress has one specific problem:

    The (wordpress) php page that imports moveable type to be “Published” has a capitol P, rather than a lowercase p in its script. This sounds funny, but after causing four hours of confusion this was found to be the complete cause of all of our problems. Running a command to turn all of the “Publish” texts within our server into “publish” with a lowercase p instantly published all of our posts, and the permalinks worked thereafter. This is with the latest version of wordpress as of 6/28/08.

    The people who wrote the MT to wordpress script for wordpress have a capitalization issue to fix.

    I really hope this helps you guys, moving from MT to WordPress can be a pain. Also if you don’t have direct access to your apache server there are other posts regarding how to make .htaccess rewritable by other methods.

    Good luck if you’re having this problem,

    Patrick

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