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Oh, didn’t know 1&1 used frames for the domain, my error (and I should have been already writing the url in the first post, too). I just switched to the default theme, but search (and Dashboard search) still don’t find any messages.

There’s one more thing that came to my mind: When I started to switch to WP quite a while ago, I had to comment out Process PATH_INFO and 404 in wp-blog-header.php because otherwise all pages wouldn’t work and I’d get a
404 on all pages. The reason why I had to do it: I have no idea, I was searching for an answer but was unable to find one (more info at https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/36592). Several people in the IRC help channel tried to help, and someone got the idea to comment the above mentioned part of the code out, it worked. I don’t know if this is related to the search issue, but it might be better to mention it.

Frames, on https://www.iroke.de/wp ?? There’re no frames, no tables, the layout is css and some content inbetween…?

I haven’t modified the wp installation except wp-blog-headers.php (commented out the part that controls 404 messages, otherwise wp wouldn’t work at all)

The wp index.php contains only

<?php
/* Short and sweet */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require('./wp-blog-header.php');
?>

the theme’s index.php contains

<?php
get_header();
?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<?php
if ($single) {
previous_cat_post($beforeGroup=' &#171 ', $afterGroup=' | ', $beforeEach='', $afterEach=' ', $showtitle=true, $textForEach='');
?>
<a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>">Main</a>
<?php
next_cat_post($beforeGroup=' | ', $afterGroup=' » ', $beforeEach='', $afterEach=' ', $showtitle=true, $textForEach='');
}
?>
</p>
<div class="entry">
<!--
<h2 class="entrydate"><?php the_date() ?></h2>
-->
<h3 class="entrytitle" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title('-image-');?></a>
</h3>
<div class="entrybody">
<div class="entrydate"><?php the_time('F dS Y') ?></div>
<?php the_content(__('(more...)')); ?>
<div class="entrymeta">Posted in <?php the_category(',') ?>&nbsp;&nbsp;<!--<p class="comments_link">-->
<?php $comments_img_link = '<img src="' . get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/images/comments.gif" title="comments" alt="*" />'; comments_popup_link('No Comments', $comments_img_link . ' 1 Comment', $comments_img_link . ' % Comments'); ?>
</div>
</div>
<!--
<?php trackback_rdf(); ?>
-->
</div>
<?php comments_template(); // Get wp-comments.php template ?>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php posts_nav_link(' — ', __('&laquo; Previous Page'), __('Next Page &raquo;')); ?>
</div>
</div><!-- The main content column ends -->
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Oops, I totally forgot to provide basic info, sorry about that:
Wordpress 1.5.2
Theme: modified Flex (Phu Ly) theme
https://www.iroke.de/wp

The theme was provided with the same handful of files I use right now as well, I primarily changed design details. The theme does not have a search.php, the original zip didn’t have one… is one neccessary?

Not sure what you mean with “in frames”.

There’s no connection between a theme’s search and the “search posts” one in the Dashboard/manage section, right? I mean, the Dashboard search function doesn’t work either, but possibly out of a different reason?

sorry for bumping. I deactivated Textcontrol and reposted the article, everything went back to normal. Serves me right to play with plugins…

Better use gallery(2) instead of depending on 3rd party services that might or might not change (take a look at Flickr!). I imported my posts from Blogger, but the pictures I had inserted with Hello (not using Picasa though) don’t show up in my WP blog. Not sure if that’s supposed to happen, I’m almost convinced Hello doesn’t allow its service being used elsewhere than blogger…

works… but why is the next crossed out on this page?
https://www.iroke.de/wp/index.php?paged=3
all others are not
just curious ??

I did – the archive seems to work now, thank you very much ??
What was the reason for that rule
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(..)/?$ /wordpress/$1/?cl_lang=$2 [QSA]
to be inserted in the htaccess in the first place? I mean, if the devs decided to leave it in there, I guess it served a purpose…?

Looks like there’s a glitch in the templating system, but I’ll see to iron that out then I’ll be glad to move over from blogger ??

I solved the above problem, but sometimes still the right border doesn’t show up…

I was able to get around the problem that the index page didn’t show anything at all except a 404. While no template without a special 404 page will show the error, the link to the archives is b0rked as well. I commented out a part of the code from wp-blog-header.php
// Process PATH_INFO and 404.
and at least the start page showed up again. Now, never mind permalinks or not, the archives are not there.
https://www.iroke.de/wp/2005/06/
won’t work while
https://www.iroke.de/wp/
works.
Any hints are highly appreciated…

No, there’s none. The css that’s responsible for the comments:

p#comments{
text-align:center;
padding:7px;
border:1px solid #acb1ba;
margin-bottom:10px;
margin-top:80px;
font-weight:bold;
}
ol#commentlist {
margin-top:0px;

padding: 5px;
margin-left: 0px;

list-style-type: none;
font-size:0.9em;
}
#commentlist li p{
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
}
.commentname {
color: #000;
float: left;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0 0 2px 0;

}
.commentinfo{
color: #9b9b9b;
width: 200px;
float: right;
text-align: right;
}
.commenttext {
clear: both;
padding-top: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-bottom: 30px;
border-top: 1px solid #ebebeb;
line-height:11pt; /*MODIFIED*/
color: #5b5b5b;
}

*argh*
Case reopened. My provider can’t confirm any error with the DirectoryIndex, so again, I have no clue what’s wrong. They said it might be mod_rewrite, but the error existed before I enabled it. When using a template that doesn’t have a 404 page, it works, but only on the surface. That something’s still not right with the urls, take a look at the last but one button in the sidebar (w3c validation referrer button). Click it, and the validator won’t find the page. Again, htaccess is renamed and disabled, permalinks not used.

Alright, after eight reinstalls the guys in the irc channel were able to give the decisive hint: Switching over to the old theme, suddenly everything worked. The reason for the 404 with the new default theme was that it had a 404 page, the old one doesn’t, i.e.
https://www.iroke.de/wp/index.php
worked all the time, but not
https://www.iroke.de/wp/
The reason for the index.php not showing up is a misconfiguration on my provider’s side.
Case closed, thx for reading (and helping!)

btw, the mysql version is 3.23.58, php 4.3.10
I’ll try a reinstall.

update: just did, same error on the mainsite, no error at all during install :-/

no, it’s a standard installation. No changes whereever… I can’t even recall an error message, I got through with the instalation process no prob (it’s not that much anyway ?? ). I’m almost thinking about deleting the whole thing and just reinstall it since there’s no data in the db anyway, but if it happens again I’m back at square one and no clue what’s going wrong.

I also tried to turn on permalinks – the 404 was still there, turning it off didn’t have any impact as well.