dorsai65

Okay, got it straightened out.

Wee, small, technical detail: in the Apache configuration, I kinda left out the “Options FollowSymLinks” and “AllowOverride FileInfo”. Got those set, and Life Is Good(tm) ??

I’m running WP on a SuSE 9.2 box, Apache 2, PHP4, MySQL. I did my 1.5 install fresh (from scratch – no hiccups or other fussing), default .htaccess generated by WP. Everything else seems to be working just fine; it’s just the bleeping permalinks (and resultant inability to accept comments) that is the hangup. I’ve Googled for possible solutions, and absolutely nothing has worked. I’ve been fiddling with the problem – off and on – for 3 days, and I’m tired of it.

Now I have to decide if it’s time to downgrade back to 1.2, live with no commenting, or (last choice) see if there’s a different package with WP-like features that will actually work on my system. Please understand: I’m not fussing or irate or anything like that. WP is F/OSS, and I’m simply disappointed that it isn’t working the way it should on MY system, and there doesn’t seem to be any available solution to the problem.

https://www.dmerriman.dyndns.org/blog is the site; just a few posts from some system upgrading I did over Spring break.

I’m having this problem, too – I can post, but any attempt to add a comment results in a 404. I’m using the .htaccess that a fresh/clean WP1.5 installation generated.
I’ve tried a number of different permalink structures (finally settled on /%year%%monthnum%/%post_id%/), but it isn’t happening.
Here’s the .htaccess, if anyone knowledgeable wants to check it…

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ – [S=39]
RewriteRule ^feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?&feed=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?&feed=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?&paged=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^comments/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?&feed=$1&withcomments=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^comments/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?&feed=$1&withcomments=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^comments/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?&paged=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^search/(.+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?s=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^search/(.+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?s=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^search/(.+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?s=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^search/(.+)/?$ /blog/index.php?s=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?category_name=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)/?$ /blog/index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^author/([^/]+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^author/([^/]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^author/([^/]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?author_name=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^author/([^/]+)/?$ /blog/index.php?author_name=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^date/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&feed=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^date/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&feed=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^date/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&paged=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^date/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^date/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&feed=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^date/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&feed=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^date/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&paged=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^date/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^date/([0-9]{4})/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^date/([0-9]{4})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^date/([0-9]{4})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^date/([0-9]{4})/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]+)/trackback/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&p=$3&tb=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&p=$3&feed=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&p=$3&feed=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&p=$3&paged=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]+)/?([0-9]+)?/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&p=$3&page=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})([0-9]{1,2})/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&feed=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})([0-9]{1,2})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&feed=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})([0-9]{1,2})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&paged=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})([0-9]{1,2})/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

*shriek!*
Did the upgrade to .72b – same problem (only prettier).
Dorsai65

Cool. Got it. I can only hope this fixes the original problem :-/
Dorsai65

I’d love to – except that .71 was all that SourceForge had to offer ??
If you could point me at a patch or the .72 files, I’d appreciate it.
Either way, *nobody* can log into the blog until I get this resolved….
Dorsai65

Hmmmm. I don’t have wp-config.php; the zip file decompressed a b2config.php, which I duly edited with care.
b2config.php includes the lines:
// database tables’ names (change them if you want to have multiple b2’s in a single database)
$tableposts = ‘b2posts’;
$tableusers = ‘b2users’;
$tablesettings = ‘b2settings’;
$tablecategories = ‘b2categories’;
$tablecomments = ‘b2comments’;
// tables for link manager
$tablelinks = “b2links”;
$tablelinkcategories = “b2linkcategories”;
but I’m still not finding any reference to a url field in any of the tables.
Dorsai65
(somewhat relieved I’m not being TOO much of a pain ??

From SourceForge, I got wordpress-071-gold.zip; unzipped it into it’s own directory, then copied that to my web server’s html directory.
Dorsai65

I do have phpMyAdmin.
I would have thought that if the table was created during the WP install, the wp_options string would have shown up in one of the files.
ah, well….
Dorsai65

???
I don’t have one of those – and I did a search for the wp_options string in all the files in the zip file I downloaded from SourceForge, too. How/when/where is it created, if I can’t find a reference to it in any of the files?
(very confused)
Dorsai65

My settings table does NOT have anything like a siteurl entry/value. What would the correct field name & other settings be, so I can enter it manually?
Dorsai65

Followup:
This also happens when other users try to log in, as well.
Dorsai65

If you still can’t see anything after the above, try turning on display of error messages in PHP; if your PHP isn’t working, you won’t get anything out of mysql…
I had PHP choking during an install, so couldn’t see anything because PHP wasn’t telling me what the problem was :-/
HTH

Okay, the password in the database is still the same – but when I try to login, it just keeps taking me back to the login page. My b2/wp install is in the same directory as my html files; I’m running the blog as commentary.php. The b2config.php looks like:
$siteurl = ‘https://www.ericksonward2.org&#8217;;
$blogfilename = ‘Commentary.php’;
$blogname = “Community Forum”;
$blogdescription = “Anything and everything involving government.”;
and as I mentioned, it comes up and displays just fine; why I can’t log in baffles me.
Dorsai65