[wp-hackers] wp-comments-post.php & file upload problem

[Beth Cleaver]

That DID fix the upload issue, though.

(Getting booted out of the admin panel was no problem; I just logged 
back in.)

Beth
http://bamapachyderm.com



Beth Cleaver wrote on 2/25/2008 4:11 PM:
> Okay, I did that.  I got booted out of the admin panel when I did it, 
> and when I went to try to post a comment, the same thing happened 
> (wp-comments-post.php issue).
>
> Beth
> http://bamapachyderm.com
>
>
>
> Otto wrote on 2/25/2008 2:36 PM:
>> Why are you setting the WordPress address to
>> http://bamapachyderm.com/mccainblogs.com/ ? Try setting it to just
>> http://mccainblogs.com/ .
>>
>> The only reason that the Blog Address and the WordPress address need
>> to ever be different is when the wordpress root and the actual
>> wp-includes and such are in different locations. If WordPress is
>> installed wholly in one directory, then both of those should be the
>> same.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Beth Cleaver 
>> <cleavere at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>  
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>  Y'all are my last hope of figuring this problem out.
>>>
>>>  I have a blog (linked at the eom) on 2.3.3, and everything is fine 
>>> with
>>>  it.  I got an add-on domain the other day and after a lot of
>>>  hair-pulling, I finally got WP installed on the same server account as
>>>  my regular blog (related wp forum thread here
>>>  <http://wordpress.org/support/topic/158528?replies=3>).  Yay, right?
>>>  Eh, not quite.
>>>
>>>  The add-on domain/blog URL is http://mccainblogs.com/ (don't heckle me
>>>  pls) and the location is /public_html/mccainblogs.com/(wordpress 
>>> files);
>>>  in the options the wordpress address is set as
>>>  http://bamapachyderm.com/mccainblogs.com.  (That's just background
>>>  information, I guess.)
>>>  *
>>>  My problem*:  I can't comment on mccainblogs.com; I get the dreaded
>>>  blank screen stuck on wp-comments-post.php, no redirect to the 
>>> original
>>>  post, and no comment gets posted.  I've seen this issue in the WP 
>>> forums
>>>  and elsewhere around the internets, but I can't find a solution that
>>>  applies even closely enough to help me figure it out.  I'm not 
>>> hosted on
>>>  Yahoo or IIS or any of those places, I'm hosted at Blogs-About (with
>>>  Lisa Sabin).  I *have* turned off all plugins and tried the default
>>>  theme, and the same thing happens with comments.  When I tried
>>>  commenting using IE, I saw that it's giving a 405 error. (!)
>>>
>>>  *The other problem:*  I also can't upload anything (images) from the
>>>  admin (post) panel.  It does nothing when I do it, and whatever I 
>>> try to
>>>  upload shows up nowhere on the server.  I can work around that with 
>>> ftp,
>>>  but obviously I'd rather not.
>>>
>>>  I'm SURE this is all because of the add-on domain, because everything
>>>  works fine on my regular blog and my "testing" blog
>>>  (bamapachyderm.com/testing/ - nothing special with that one).  I just
>>>  don't know what I'm missing!  My .htaccess file is very close to 
>>> the one
>>>  on my regular blog (with obvious changes, like instead of
>>>  bamapachyderm.com I have mccainblogs.com where needed).  Is it 
>>> possible
>>>  my .htaccess file should NOT say mccainblogs.com, but should instead
>>>  refer to the wordpress location address?
>>>  (bamapachyderm.com/mccainblogs.com/)  I do NOT want to have
>>>  bamapachyderm show up in the mccainblogs.com URL to visitors, but I
>>>  don't care what it looks like to me, if that matters.
>>>
>>>  My assumption is that there's something I need to change in the
>>>  .htaccess file, but I don't know what that change would be. I even
>>>  thought maybe it had something to do with the canonical url, but 
>>> this is
>>>  a new blog and I haven't set up any kind of redirects (/www/no www/ or
>>>  whatever) for it, and I'd think if that were the problem, I'd have 
>>> it on
>>>  my regular blog as well, which I don't.
>>>
>>>  What am I missing, besides sleep?
>>>
>>>  Thanks!
>>>
>>>  --
>>>
>>>  Beth
>>>  http://bamapachyderm.com
>>>
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