[wp-hackers] Help needed with two issues on established WP install

[Vogel, Andrew (vogelap)]

It should be noted, however, that simply visiting the Options->Permalink
page still breaks the site.

-andrew vogel
Manager of Professional Programs
University of Cincinnati
College of Pharmacy 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com 
> [mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of 
> Vogel, Andrew (vogelap)
> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 2:25 PM
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: RE: [wp-hackers] Help needed with two issues on 
> established WP install
> 
> Thanks for helping out so far, Jamie. I really do appreciate 
> your assistance!
> 
> I apologize for my ignorance, but I'm not sure what I'm 
> looking for in the rewrite log file, so I've posted the whole 
> thing from both the working site (56K) and non-working (84K) 
> configurations.
> 
> Here's what I did...
> 
> * I enabled the rewrite log on my functioning site and 
> visited the main page and one article. The results of that 
> test are here:
> http://www.drewvogel.com/apache_rewrite_working.txt
> 
> Then, I...
> * Went to http://www.drewvogel.com/wp-admin/options.php and 
> removed the "/index.php" from the permalink_structure line 
> and click the "Update Settings" button.
> 
> * "service httpd restart" to restart Apache.
> 
> * I visited the main page and one article. The results of 
> that test are
> here: http://www.drewvogel.com/apache_rewrite_broken.txt. I 
> received a non-WP 404 when attempting to view the article.
> 
> On (an exciting) side note, I went back to 
> http://www.drewvogel.com/wp-admin/options.php, re-added the 
> "/index.php"
> to the permalink_structure field, clicked "Update Settings", 
> and did "service httpd restart" and my site worked again -- I 
> didn't need to roll it back from the database backup! That's 
> progress, I suppose!
> 
> Please let me know how to proceed from here.
> 
> -andrew vogel
> Manager of Professional Programs
> University of Cincinnati
> College of Pharmacy 
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com
> > [mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Jamie 
> > Holly
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 4:35 PM
> > To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> > Subject: RE: [wp-hackers] Help needed with two issues on 
> established 
> > WP install
> > 
> > At this point, I would suggest enabling the mod_rewrite log to make 
> > certain that mod_rewrite is fully firing. For some reason 
> it needs the 
> > index.php instead of mod_rewrite automatically appending the 
> > index.php.
> > 
> > Jamie Holly
> > http://www.intoxination.net
> > 
> > 
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