jayhawksean

i just removed coComment and the problem persists. i do appreciate that you’ve tried to help. i guess i’ve messed something up and i’ll probably have to figure it out by finding the php files on my computer that match the files on the server to see if i can spot the differences (e.g., something i accidentally deleted). this will teach me to mess around . . . or, to at least be more careful about backing things up first.

thanks for trying.

no, you’re seeing things correctly in the broken state.

the first two entries show No Comments. the second blog entry (Feb 10) that says, “No Comments” actually has 2 comments when you check inside.

the 3rd entry says, “1 Comment” and it really has 2 comments buried inside, but the front page indicates just 1 comment and it should say 2 comments.

i did add a coComment feature in the sidebar and it was after adding that when i noticed my problem. i merely copy-and-pasted code from the coComment site and i don’t think i deleted anything, but that’s why i am wondering what the code is for displaying comments.

that did the trick. whew!

i can find that in the preferences. i’ll fiddle with it. thanks for the help all.

i used BBEdit 8.2.1 (macintosh). your theory seems quite plausible. thanks. i’ll have to explore my line endings and see if i can copy a line ending from some lines i didn’t touch to replace the lines i edited.

EDIT: i think i was using dreamweaver when things went wrong and then switched to bbedit, fwiw.

yeah, but the style.css is one of the files i changed prior to seeing the error. here’s what i have to start style.css:
/*
Theme Name: Sean's Connections
Theme URI: https://wpthemes.info
Version: 1.0
Description: e-Sean theme
Author: Patricia Muller
Author URI: https://www.vanillamist.com/blog/
*/
body {
margin:0;
padding:0;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 0.9em;
text-align:center;
color:#000000;
line-height:1.3em;
background: #F3F6ED;
}

i didn’t mean to start a new post. oops. i was trying to search for 404 errors.

but, since i started this . . . none of my links work. i tried to create a permalink setting and it just screws my site up to the point where i have to delete the .htaccess file. fine. i can live w/o permalinks.

however, when i click on comments or on any categories or even when i click on a blog post title (even though the blog entry is visible, i clicked the title just b/c it was a link), i get 404 errors.

my site:
https://atticmooses.com/

the link it’s trying to access for comments:
https://atticmooses.com/Structure:%20/2005/06/29/blogging-survey/#comments

does something look wrong there? obviously, because it’s generating a 404 error. i have deleted the .htaccess file so that i have what i started with. shouldn’t comments work on the default install? why are my comments and other links failing?

Sorry if this is answered elsewhere. like i said, i was trying to search . . . and trust me, i searched these help files for the last few hours and was about to post any way.

well, i just deleted the htaccess file and things returned to normal.

i’d still like to add permalinks, but apparently, they don’t like me.

thanks for almost helping. ;~)

this is my last post, but i figured i’d provide my .htaccess file that has the bad rewrite directive. can you point it out so that i can learn how to fix it next time? thank you.

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [S=35]
RewriteRule ^feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?&feed=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?&feed=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?&paged=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^comments/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?&feed=$1&withcomments=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^comments/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?&feed=$1&withcomments=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^comments/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?&paged=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^search/(.+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?s=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^search/(.+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?s=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^search/(.+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?s=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^search/(.+)/?$ /index.php?s=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^Structure: /category/(.+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^Structure: /category/(.+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^Structure: /category/(.+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^Structure: /category/(.+)/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^Structure: /author/([^/]+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^Structure: /author/([^/]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^Structure: /author/([^/]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?author_name=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^Structure: /author/([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?author_name=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^Structure: /([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&feed=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^Structure: /([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&feed=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^Structure: /([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&paged=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^Structure: /([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^Structure: /([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&feed=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^Structure: /([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&feed=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^Structure: /([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&paged=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^Structure: /([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^Structure: /([0-9]{4})/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^Structure: /([0-9]{4})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^Structure: /([0-9]{4})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?year=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^Structure: /([0-9]{4})/?$ /index.php?year=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^Structure: /([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([^/]+)/trackback/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&tb=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^Structure: /([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([^/]+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&feed=$5 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^Structure: /([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([^/]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&feed=$5 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^Structure: /([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([^/]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&paged=$5 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^Structure: /([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([^/]+)(/[0-9]+)?/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&page=$5 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

# END Word

I have found my .htaccess file by turning on invisible files. I have opened it in BBEdit and now that’s where i am stuck. my webhost fixed this for me last time by editing one of the rewrite directives. how do i learn which directive is wrong and how to fix it?

i do appreciate your patience as i try and overcome this error.

actually, i just discovered that the 500 internal error is secondary. here’s the message i get (and, i am the webmaster the message says to contact . . . the clueless webmaster, that is):

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

i have the same situation as the original poster. i get the error when installing permalinks.

unfortunately, i don’t know how to get rid of the 500 internal error.

i checked my error log and don’t really have anything that looks like it could be what you’d need (i changed the IP addresses for posting just because i am paranoid):
Error Logs
[Wed Jun 29 10:40:27 2005] CURRENT SERVER TIME
MAIN error_log:

[Wed Jun 29 10:39:31 2005] [error] [client 69.34.91.139] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/favicon.ico
[Wed Jun 29 10:40:01 2005] [error] [client 12.102.171.171] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/favicon.ico
failed to open log file
fopen: Permission denied
———————————-
i think the errors listed are coming after the main error that should have occurred about 20 minutes prior to the times listed above.

i had the same thing happen a few days ago and my hosting service (bluehost) sent me this email:
The problem isn’t with the server. It is with one of the rewrite directives in your .htaccess file. I renamed it to .htaccessold, and it works fine.
——————-

i just used my FTP (transmit) to access my site. i see all of the files, but i fail to see the .htaccess file. and, even if i found it, i am not sure i’d be able to fix the rewrite directive.

can someone help me understand how to find this .htaccess file? that might get me started with a fix. in the meantime, my whole site is down with the 500 internal error.

TIA . . . bunches.