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I’ll put a quarter in the Podz appreciation thread. ??

Turnip, wait a day or two and see if the problem returns. I think, even if you redirect users to the root folder that the cookies problem returns since the WordPress and Blog address are different.
At one point I installed a generic WordPress with no plugins and still had the same problem, so I’m convinced it’s something added in 1.2.1.

Joen, removing the “www” only fixes the problem temporarily. Eventually, something changes the WordPress address to include the “www” again and the cookie problem reappears.

Are you using 1.2.1 or 1.3?
Go to your Admin page, under “Options.” Make sure your “WordPress address” and “Blog Address” are correct. If your “WordPress address” has a “www” in it, try removing it and see if the edit links come back.

I think the issue here is the same one I commented to earlier (I can’t find the thread because the “search” button is broken), but the symptom is a bunch of “redirect” and “wp-smilies” in the address bar. It happens in both IE and Firefox.
As best I can tell, something is overwriting one of the “Options” fields in WOrdpress. It happens in 1.2.1 and it happens in 1.3 alpha. It does not happen in WordPress 1.2.
Here’s what happens: under “Options”, I set both “WordPress address” and “Blog address” to https://chasingthewind.net . A day or two later, something overwrites the “WordPress” address and adds a “www” in front to https://www.chasingthewind.net . When that happens, for all users including me, the cookies break. When I was on GoDaddy.com, the style.css couldn’t be read resulting in an unformatted index.php display and users were redirected to a login screen, rendering them unable to comment.
I’ve switched to https://blogs-about.com for hosting and I don’t have the same severity of problems anymore, but the “WordPress” address is still getting overwritten every day or to with the “www” added back in. Now the symptoms are that the cookies get broken, the “edit this” links disappear, users can still comment but they have to fill in their name and email address again.
Fixing it temporarily is easy: Login to your wp-admin screen and fix the “WordPress” and “Blog” addresses under “Options”. But 24-48 hours later again, it’s broken.

Switching hosts, I ended up with the blogtrick javascript. It does indeed show the page title of the referrer. I’ll keep it running on my site for a few days if you want to peek at it.

I had the same issue a few weeks ago. It popped up when I upgraded to 1.3 alpha. I downgraded back to 1.2, deleting all my wordpress files first, and the problem went away. When I upgraded to 1.2.1, the redirect/wp-smilies issue returned.
Like Aim1159, the problem shows itself to *everybody* until the adminstrator successfully logs in. Users, when they try to comment are redirected to a login page instead.
Podz here took my files and installed them on his server, but the problem never showed itself there.
I changed hosts to https://www.blogs-about.com from Godaddy.com. I wasn’t sure that would actually fix the problem, but at Blogs-about theyare familiar with WordPress. GoDaddy doesn’t have any idea. Since I switched and upgraded to 1.2.1, the problem hasn’t returned.

I’m not sure this is true.
I used an alpha 1.3 back in August and I’m back to 1.2.1 now. I just ran the upgrade.php file to downgrade.

The wiki always confuses me. I can’t find squat. Trying to go to wiki.www.ads-software.com and searching for “plugin” or “comment” doesn’t seem to find this plugin. I’ll keep looking.

I just went through something similar of this yesterday:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/3/13686
That’ll fix WordPress so the RSS feed is valid.
As for Sharpreader, I get the same error you do on one machine, but a Sharpreader on an identical machine reads it fine. I’m convinced it’s a Sharpreader problem, not WordPress.

Is it the templates forum? I couldn’t post there either.

Ah, I was just going to report back that I moved the .htaccess to \Wordpress and the root with no appreciable results.
I changed the wp-rss2.php line above and now my RSS feed validates. Thanks!

This will be new territory for me; I don’t have a .htaccess file now. Do I just create a .htaccess with that one line in it? Does it go in my root folder or in my WordPress folder?

Thanks. ??

The instructions aren’t really clear on the blacklist. Some of the porn sites are already listed in the referer_blacklist.php file. Running that file just returns a blank screen but doesn’t remove the referrers from the Top Referrer list.
Am I missing something?