oneafrikan

Commenting out the Win32 SMTP and sendmail from lines worked for me…

I seem to remember someone saying that they had done a popup window that displayed the categories, and when you clicked the category link in the window, it would open the posts for that category in the main edit screen. Seems like a good idea.

I suppose you could do a blank page, using a modified version of the list_cats function?

Yea, thanks Podz – that’s what I was thinking.
It’s easy enough doing the layout offline on a local machine, but the content is a different story…

I wrote something here:
https://www.oneafrikan.com/archives/2004/12/11/upgrading-adding-data-from-a-b2-installation-to-a-new-wordpress-installation/
that talks about importing B2 posts to a wordpress db, and I reckon I may be able to import using a similiar method?

Method (at point of adding new data):
NB stop posting to blog during this process

1. backup live db ??
2. install live db on local machine
3. open up MS access
4. insert the posts from the local db (with the new content) into the live db on the local machine, making sure the posts are referenced in all the right places and tables
5. reset the local version of wordpress to use the now updated live db, to test the new content works
6. if everything works fine, then upload the now updated db and check to see that it all works
7. if it works, great, if not, back to the drawing board.

The only problem I can se with this is the .htaccess file not being updated with the new “page” posts??

What do you think?

I’m having the same problem on my WinXP box as well – installation to my server worked fine, and I have permalinks working, but my local setup isn’t – keep on getting a Error 404 message from Apache…

This is what my .htaccess looks like, based on stuff I’ve read on the forum:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase “C:/projects/oneafrikan/www/oneafrikan.com/live/”
RewriteRule ^archives/category/(.*)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /wp-feed.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/category/?(.*) /index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/author/(.*)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /wp-feed.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/author/?(.*) /index.php?author_name=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})?/?([0-9]{1,2})?/?([0-9]{1,2})?/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?([0-9]+)?/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&page=$5 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([_0-9a-z-]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /wp-feed.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&feed=$5 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([_0-9a-z-]+)/trackback/?$ /wp-trackback.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /wp-feed.php?feed=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^comments/feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /wp-feed.php?feed=$1&withcomments=1 [QSA]

Can anyone help with this?

Have I written the rewritebase correctly?
Should there be a trailing slash?
Should there be inverted commas?
Should the mod_rewrite.so line in the httpd.conf file be uncommented?

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Thanks guys – that worked for me with Newsgator.