Fitz Ryland

Hey folks, I just ran across this post, and was experiencing the exact same problem. Other pages were redirecting just fine, but PDFs or other files were unaffected.

This totally makes sense. When you request a file the server just loads the file. It doesn’t run PHP or WordPress at all, so the plugin has no chance to intercede. It is going to have to be a change that you make with the server to allow WordPress to hop in there and do the redirect. I am not sure what that change is, but I contacted my host, WPEngine, and they were able to make a server configuration change to allow the PDF redirects to work.

Try logging in to the WordPress Admin Area.
Navigate to Settings -> Permalinks.
Don’t change any settings. Just click ‘Save Settings’

This is probably a problem with how WordPress handles the rewrite rules. Especially when moving a site the url is going to change, so the rules need to change. Saving your Permalink Settings resets the .htaccess file which controls the URLs.

Did that do the trick?

John,

Thanks a bunch! I really appreciate you fixing those notices. You even fixed it before I even had a chance to show it to my client!

I’ll keep you in the loop if I see spot anything else. Great plugin so far though.

– Fitz

Awesome! That will make layout design much easier for me.

Great plugin otherwise.

Looks like this issue is related to PHP using cgi-fcgi instead of CLI SAPI. I don’t really fully understand what that means, but it looks like Composer relies on variables that CLI SAPI allows you to pass applications but CGI and FCGI do not. Is there someone that knows a bit more about PHP configuration out there?

https://github.com/composer/composer/issues/1513

I get a very similar warning tring to install wp-cli on JustHost

Warning: Composer should be invoked via the CLI version of PHP, not the cgi-fcgi SAPI
<br />
<b>Fatal error</b>:  Uncaught exception 'ErrorException' with message 'Undefined index: argv' in phar:///HOMEDIRECTORY/USERNAME/.wp-cli/composer.phar/vendor/symfony/console/Symfony/Component/Console/Input/ArgvInput.php:57
Stack trace:
#0 phar:///HOMEDIRECTORY/USERNAME/.wp-cli/composer.phar/vendor/symfony/console/Symfony/Component/Console/Input/ArgvInput.php(57): Composer\Util\ErrorHandler::handle(8, 'Undefined index...', 'phar:///HOMEDIRECTORY/f...', 57, Array)
#1 phar:///HOMEDIRECTORY/USERNAME/.wp-cli/composer.phar/vendor/symfony/console/Symfony/Component/Console/Application.php(111): Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput->__construct()
#2 phar:///HOMEDIRECTORY/USERNAME/.wp-cli/composer.phar/src/Composer/Console/Application.php(83): Symfony\Component\Console\Application->run(NULL, Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
#3 phar:///HOMEDIRECTORY/USERNAME/.wp-cli/composer.phar/bin/composer(43): Composer\Console\Application->run()
#4 /HOMEDIRECTORY/USERNAME/.wp-cli/composer.phar(14): require('phar:///HOMEDIRECTORY/f...')
#5 {main}
  thrown in <b>phar:///HOMEDIRECTORY/USERNAME/.wp-cli/composer.phar/vendor/symfony/console/Symfony/Component/Console/Input/ArgvInput.php</b> on line <b>57</b><br />
WP-CLI was not successfully installed.

Im in the same boat. I could really use an availability checker for renting conference rooms, but I do not want to show any bookings for the rooms. I just want a checker. I hope an ambitious plug-in developer is reading this….

I am experiencing the same issue even on my local environment with the 2012 theme active and all other plugins disabled. Bellow is a link to my version live on a custom theme.

https://collectiveagency.co/event/lightning-talks-6/

(overall love the plugin)

Barry, your a good man, and I’m a better themer for it. Thank you. I guess I was just throwing the latest version of jQuery in there out of habit on non-WordPress projects.

I pulled out my link to jQuery and vuala! It works.

It seems pretty likely a theme conflict at least in my case. I have the same error as described above on a custom theme that I am developing, but when I switch my theme to 2011 the error is gone, and downgrading to 2.0.9 does not resolve the conflict.

Hope thats helpful.

Great, this works perfectly. Thanks a lot!

but your so good at it…

thanks a lot, nice and easy, and works like a charm. gotta love wordpress

Thanks a lot, you have been very helpful. I think I will organize my site a bit differently as a result.

Great, thanks a lot. Very helpful.

My next question is how to get rid of “category” in the url for the category page.
I would like my url to read:

mysite.com/categoryname

instead of:

mysite.com/category/categoryname