Chris Lowry

Yeh, similar problem here: https://restorechurchboston.co.uk/gallery/

Yeh, that didn’t work for me. None of my files are 0 bytes, same error. C

Exact same issue here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/empty-blog-folder-being-created-disrupting-permalink

Still not resolved. Any ideas guys?

Thanks mate. That worked perfectly!

I could kill them with a cron job every minute, but that’s far from ideal…

Any ideas guys?

wp-config.php has

define( 'DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'exploringfoodandwine.com' );
define( 'PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/' );

.htaccess has

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule  ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $1 [L]
RewriteRule  ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(.*\.php)$ $1 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

I assume its a WP setting somewhere, because when I reset permalinks, the setting returns.

You can see where I can alter the setting here: https://img1.uploadscreenshot.com/images/orig/10/28612021061-orig.jpg – but is there a way to make that /blog editable within site admin instead?

My hosts have given me the log, saying :

drwxr-xr-x 2 aachris aachris 4096 Oct 6 17:47 blog/

The user and group on the folder was your user and group, so it sounds like something within the WordPress is possibly creating the folder.

Does that help?

Hey guys, sorry for the slow reply.

I am not using multisite. I have briefly had a seperate WPMS install set up in a subdirectory, which I thought could cause the problem, but I have uninstalled that, and my base install is standard WP.

WordPress is installed in a subdirectory. In the interest of security, lets say its at allaboutchris.org/wordp – its not, but its in a similar directory.

I just linked to that above – “set up using htaccess and an index file in root“. That’s the method I used.

It breaks because a blank directory keeps being created.

Sorry? I don’t have a second site.

There is one install in a subdirectory – I’ve not posted it here since the whole reason its there is for safety to reduce hacking – but imagine its allaboutchris.org/wpinstall.

I have that set up using htaccess and an index file in root to appear that the site is installed at allaboutchris.org, with pages at allaboutchris.org/pagename and blog posts under allaboutchris.org/blog.

However, something keeps creating an actual folder under /blog, which thus ends up breaking the .htaccess code. Any idea what process would be creating a blank directory?

Hey Esmi,

Allaboutchris.org and Allaboutchris.org/blog.

No, I understand that its not flat file. What I mean is that a htaccess set to use friendly urls, with all posts under blog/2011/post-title will break if the blog/ directory actually exists!

Amazing, it works. I assumed it was only working because I had an advanced excerpt plugin installed.

But doesn’t that automatically strip html?

thanks, yeh I realised I was being an idiot!