[wp-testers] Permalinks bug

[Ryan Boren]

On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 20:31 +0100, Jan du Pree wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> As I do not have a login for Trac at this moment, I figured I'd write
> about this here. Maybe someone else will be able to file a bug report,
> if this turns out to be a bug after all.
> 
> I just upgraded my blog ( http://www.foundandlost.nl) to WP2.0
> (released version). Before, the permalinks worked fine. I have a page
> set up named 'Archieven' at root/archieven/
> (http://www.foundandlost.nl/archieven/), where a list of past posts is
> displayed.
> 
> My permalinks are like this:
> 
> Custom structure: /%year%/%monthnum%/%post_id%/%postname%/
> This worked fine and it still does. 
> 
> Category base: /archieven
> This worked fine and does not anymore.
> 
> When the category base is changed, for instance to /tag, everything
> workes fine. The problem seems to be that there is a single page,
> which has the same slug as the category base. It is not unlike ticket
> #2003 ( http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2003), but there's a
> difference.
> 
> In one sentence: WP2.0, unlike WP1.5.2, does not seem to be able to
> handle category permalinks which share the same partial slug. 
> 
> Is there a workaround for this?

Make sure the /archieven directory does not physically exist in the
filesystem.

Ryan