Comments on: Broken permalinks- help!

By: Randa

Randa — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:12:59 +0000

Another update, I put in a manual, single post redirect into the htaccess, and it did work:
redirect 301 /archives/4-reasons-your-blog-needs-a-logo http://randaclay.com/blogging/4-reasons-your-blog-needs-a-logo

Maybe instead of using a plugin, I need to just set up something similar in htaccess that would take care of all of them at once, but I don’t know what that code would look like… Anyone??? I just need a wildcard kind of thing right? Something like:
redirect 301 /archives/* http://randaclay.com/blogging/*

By: alex

alex — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:08:19 +0000

It seems that there’s a misconfiguration on your host (like you already pointed out), because every page starting with /archives/ gives other 404 error page containing ads [1], it isn’t the one that WordPress uses [2]

[1] http://randaclay.com/archives/foo/
[2] http://randaclay.com/foo/foo/

By: Randa

Randa — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:46:13 +0000

@Michael - no, and in fact, I have deleted my htaccess file several times in this process to no avail.

@Tara - I just tried the plugin and it didn’t work for me. Somehow my site has decided it hates anything starting with /archives/. Everything else works! I don’t get it! Cool plugin though.

This really seems to me like a host level problem, not a wordpress problem. I don’t know what they possibly could have done though, and all my other sites work fine, some of which have the permalinks starting with /archives/

By: Tara: Graphic Design Blog

Tara: Graphic Design Blog — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:14:25 +0000

All worked fine for me but you might want to try it out on a test site first.

By: Michael from Pro Blog Design

Michael from Pro Blog Design — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:04:53 +0000

Do you have anything else in your .htaccess file? (eg. code for blocking certain visitors, rewriting domains etc.)

If so, the order in which you put things can have an impact. Try them out in different orders perhaps? (WP is usually supposed to be at the bottom)

By: Randa

Randa — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:57:53 +0000

Oh! Thanks Tara, I might try that. Did you find that there were any drawbacks to installing it. Sounds like the perfect solution.

By: Tara: Graphic Design Blog

Tara: Graphic Design Blog — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:51:29 +0000

There is a plugin you can use to change the structure of your permalink. When I started out I left the links as their defaults - I didn’t know you could change them. A few months a go I found Deans permalink migration which allows you to change the structure without breaking you old links. It worked Ok for me.

By: Randa Clay

Randa Clay — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:46:26 +0000

Becca - thanks for that info. I really thought blowing away my htaccess would fix it, but no luck.

You’re right David, it is a big decision and when you start a blog you have no idea for the most part. I am glad I have the post name in the permalink at least. Otherwise, I don’t know what I would have chosen if I could go back. I haven’t worried about it, since I can’t change it, presuming this current issue gets sorted out.

By: David Airey :: Graphic Designer

David Airey :: Graphic Designer — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:33:40 +0000

Sorry Randa, this isn’t really my forté. I feel your pain though, and I hope you get it sussed out as soon as possible.

Out of curiousity, are you happy that you chose archives/postname/ as your permalink? It’s quite a big decision to make right at the beginning of a blog’s life.

Ah the joy of Ajax Edit Comments.

By: Becca

Becca — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:24:36 +0000

That happened to me when I changed my htaccess file to block hotlinking. I had to remove those lines for it to work again properly. I doubt that helps you but I thought I’d share.