something strange in 1.5-alpha-6 2004-12-23

  • Ok so I installed everything (thanks to Podz) and it seems to work, but I noticed something odd. When I’m in wordpress and I go into the “options” and click on “permalinks” I get
    “Forbidden
    You don’t have permission to access /***/wp-admin/options-permalink.php on this server.
    Apache/1.3.31 Server at www.***.ca Port 80″
    So when I looked into what the crack was happening, I noticed that when I click the “permalinks” an .htaccess file is created in my sites folder. And I have to go into my site admin and delete the .htaccess file. I also took a look at what was inside the .htaccess file and I saw the name wordpress among a bunch of stuff I can’t begin to wrap my head around.
    Any clue what this is about?

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  • Thread Starter Johnnie

    (@johnnie)

    Ok, I’m not sure really how to do that… All I know is once it created the .htaccess file no one could view the site.

    I am experiencing a very similar problem, and the fix above did not work. When permalinks are enabled, the .htaccess file is created in the proper directory, and for every link it works perfectly except when I try to use the site admin to the wp-admin directory.
    The difference between the menu links is that the site admin link is a call to wp_register() whereas the other links are absolute URLs.
    Here’s the error …

    Forbidden
    You don’t have permission to access /wp2/wp-admin/ on this server.
    Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

    Simply by switching RewriteEngine Off in the .htaccess file I am able to get at the admin page …
    I am using the example permalink shown on the wordpress permalink page and I have never used mod_rewrite before so I am really stuck. (even reading the apache documentation did not really help)
    regards,
    x.

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