ja2006

Thanks, but…

I wanted to use the Contact 7 form, and I can’t get the form to work without the Captcha, so it is useless unless the Captcha thing can work. I will probably have to find another contact form, or call my hosting company to see if they can install those missing library things. The thing is, I don’t know for sure what the GD and FreeType libraries are, or where you would get those. I assumed they would be provided by the hosting company, or if not, then I guess you can’t use them, but thanks for the Aksimet tip. I need to register and get a number for that.

OK. That sounds good. I will! Thanks again. I may have used that one once before, too.

I since partially found out what the problem was. I was copying the wrong code – I just needed one line of code to insert into the page, which was generated at the top of the Contact Form generator Settings page.

However, I still have an issue with this working because the Really Simple Captcha requires that GD and Free Style libraries be installed on my server. Since they aren’t I don’t know if I can get this Form to work, unless I call my hosting company to see if they can do something about that.

dv-design – I just got the answer. You do need to create a .htaccess file with this code in it:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

When you create your htaccess file in Notepad, don’t have your .txt extension selected. Rather have the All files from the drop-down type in Notepad selected so when you save your htaccess file, it will automatically have the .htaccess extension. Then upload this file to your WordPress directory on your server, and that should allow your new permalink structure to work, and your page links will come back. Someone just told me how to do this, and I did it, and the pages automatically linked back up again! Good luck.

The user’s name is dv-design. Perhaps I will post something on her string, to let her know how to do the .htaccess file.

I seem to be having a lot of issues today with my blog set-up. I was also trying to install Contact Form 7, and that didn’t work, because my server is missing some libraries for the Captcha images.

I just re-created the .htaccess file, and uploaded it, and bingo – the links work now! Thank you so much. There is someone else having this same problem on another question.

Okay. I was just reading this on another person’s question, and saw someone had said to include the # BEGIN WordPress, and# END WordPress.

So you can create the .htaccess file, and upload it to the WordPress folder on the server, with that in it, and then it will allow the peramalink structure to work?

I am having the same problem that you are, I think dv-design. I changed my permalink structue, and am now getting an error, file not found for my About and Contact pages. Under the WPSettings tab, it said to create an .htaccess file, with some generated code it gave. I trie to do that, but it didn’t solve the broken link issue. I am totally clueless as to what to do, and just posted my problem in another question in this forum, too.

Here is the link to the blog:
https://kennedy-warren.org/wordpress/

This is the error message I am getting when I try to go to any of the comments I have posted, as well as the About page, and the Contact page.

Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.2.11 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.8.8 Server at kennedy-warren.org Port 80

Hi –
Just to let you know – they finally emailed me to let me know I could use the key that I had for the WordPress.com blog, and reuse that same key for more than one blog, as well. So I was able to input the key number, and everything has been solved! I meant to write back to let you know, but I assume you probably figured out that it did get resolved! Thanks again for all of your help.

Okay, I may have solved the problem. I went back to WordPress.com, and logged in, then tried to register a new blog. I also went into my profile and found a key there associated with the first blog I registered there. I decided to create another blog, and am waiting for a new key, now. I think the problem was that I (stupidly) entered the URL address of the non-WordPress blog, the https://www.kennedy-warren.org/wordpress, which isn’t hosted at WordPress.com, so that is most likely the reason I could not submit a request through their form. I just submitted a request to them to get a second key, or to find out when/if it will appear in my profile over there. It was that I guess I thought I had to enter the URL of the blog I needed the key for, and not the one I had registered at WordPress.com. SORRY for all of the confusion! I hope this will resolve the issue. I guess the only remaining question is do I just use the key that is already in my WordPress.com Profile, now, or do I get a second one with the second blog?

Thanks again – and I’m sorry if I created confusion for everyone about this. Being new, I am just getting used to these interfaces, and it is a bit confusing.

Thanks to both of you for asking over at WordPress.com how to deal with this – I read your posting there, Kafka. The problem is that I am unable to even submit the request through their form, after I enter the URL of my blog, which isn’t hosted as a WordPress.com blog. So I can’t even use the form just to ask the question, without a WordPress.com URL.

Hi again Kafka and Cornell,

Sorry I have not been able to get back to this for a few days, so hope I haven’t been forgotten on this topic. I am not able to send the support message to ask for help on the WordPress.com site, because my blog site is not being hosted on WordPress.com. They have a message right on the page for the URL you gave me above, that they do not provide support if your blog is not being hosted by WordPress.com. They ask you to enter the URL for your blog, and I did, which is the reason why I cannot submit the message to them. They suggest finding support elsewhere, which is why I am back here again, on www.ads-software.com.

I did buy the WordPress 2 Book by Visual Quickstart, and have read the Chapter on activating Akismet, and it says just what you said above, that you can register for a blog on WordPress.com, and obtain a key, then use it on your blog that is being hosted on another server, so you were right of course, but for whatever reason, each time I have tried to enter either of these two keys that I now have, they are marked invalid in a big red message. Would you recommend trying to obtain a third blog through WordPress.com, getting another key, then trying again?

Cornell,

Thanks for this. I finally understood because I talked to someone else since my first posting here, who told me what to do, BUT, I went to WordPress.com and logged in, and apparently received an email, then ended up creating a second login and getting a blog with that one. I received two keys in the emails that I got. I tried plugging both of them into the blog — which as I said in my post above, is actually NOT being hosted at WordPress.com, but through the website’s own hosting company — and neither of the keys worked.

So now I am wondering what this means, and if I can or cannot use the key with that blog. On the API page, it marked both keys as Invalid, when I logged back into the blog site where I tried to insert it. The only explanation I can think is that it is because our blog is not being hosted on WOrdPress. Is this right?