Posting a Comment Leads to 404

  • For the past week, my blog has been redirecting to me and any guests who try to comment to a 404 error page. I don’t think I’ve made any major changes to my blog. The only thing I’ve done with my blog in terms of editing it is changing a small CSS value to the paragraph (p) tag. Styles can’t possibly affect the way comments can they?

    I was on 2.8.1 when this started happening. I did an auto-update just now and the comment issue continues to persist.

    Can someone help me with my problem?

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  • after some further testing i came to the conclusion, that the problem is not the version of wordpress or the theme. it all works using a fresh installation of wordpress and wordpress mu. so it must be in my database.

    logged in users can post comments, everybody else can’t (-> 404). i also tried to transfer my comments to disqus and intensedebate. in either case the import did not happen at all.

    what else can i do? ??

    roberthq

    (@roberthqprintsnet)

    Maybe add a custom 404 file that says the comments has been sent and give a link back to the home page.

    This does appear to be a Database issue. Install the WP-DB Manager Plugin.

    Back up your database, then repair and optimize it using the provided tools. Most likely this will do the trick! Then depending on the size of your database do this on a regular basis to keep things humming.

    HTH! ??

    If you still have problems, uncheck “Break comments into pages…” in Settings > Discussions. HTH!

    Hi everyone- had a very similar problem today – the problem appeared without any changes to the WordPress installation: when publishing a new comment users were receiving a 404. I Looked at the comments DB table and for some reason it had stopped auto-incrementing itself.

    I changed the ‘comment_ID’ id column to Auto Increment and it seems to work okay now. New comments are saving correctly.

    I was experiencing the same issue: 404 page on comment posting, but additionally, all the comments previously on my site had disappeared, neither listed in dashboard or viewable on the pages themselves.

    I tried the methods mentioned: disabling plugins, changing themes, checking permalinks, htaccess rewrite rules, and file permissions, and upgrading WP… none of them worked. It turned out that the problem was my WP comments table had crashed.

    It looks like WP-DB Manager Plugin doesn’t have a version for WP 3, so here’s a link on how to fix crashed tables quickly if you have shell access to the wp database files: How to repair a crashed wordpress database

    I can confirm that repairing the wp_comments table fixed this exact problem for me (running 2.9.2). I didn’t have permissions to repair tables directly on my shared host, but I installed the wp-dbmanager plugin and ran the repair on the table from there. Problem solved!

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