Clean URLs that use organic soap...

evilmonkey · 2005-10-28 23:47:12

Howdy!

So I’m desperately trying to use clean URLs in my site (that I love so much I only feed it the best, most animal-safe, organically grown blog engine I could find), and I thought I set it correctly in the admin settings, and I just know I have mod_rewrite working quite spankingly. However (and isn’t there always a however?) it doesn’t seem to play well. I even threw it a ball to see what it might do. Not very reassuring.

Here’s the rub – the site seems to work okay until you click on a link. Like, say, for example, the “Comment” link. Then I get one of my spiffy custom 404 errors. I didn’t know how irritating my 404 page was until I faced it a handful of times. Now I know.

But this doesn’t change the fact that if I use “messy urls” the site works like a charm. As soon as I change it to spankingly clean urls in the flavor I do so favor, it breaks. Please, please, please… help me!

Here’s the URL to my site so anyone inclined to give me advice can take a gander and see for themselves. I’ll keep the URLs set to “clean” so you can witness for yourself the itch.

Jose Sierra’s Spanktacular Site Featuring Flying Evil Monkeys!

Thanks ahead of time for any advice!

Jose

zem · 2005-10-28 23:57:22

I just know I have mod_rewrite working quite spankingly.

How do you know? The behaviour is exactly what I’d expect to see if mod_rewrite was disabled or unavailable.

Elenita · 2005-10-29 00:16:50

Who’s your hosting provider? Maybe those who are also hosted there can offer you tips.

evilmonkey · 2005-10-29 00:17:20

I know mod_rewrite is working because I just finished installing and configuring Gallery for some photos (have it running parallel to Coppermine for comparison) and Gallery uses mod_rewrite for clean URL operation (which it does successfully…)

Normally I’d agree with you about mod_rewrite being missing, but the evidence seems contradictory. Hence my request for some outside (hopefully divine) intervention…

evilmonkey · 2005-10-29 00:19:39

> Elenita wrote:

> Who’s your hosting provider? Maybe those who are also hosted there can offer you tips.

Exa-bytes. I’ve used them for many tens of thousands of sites (okay, maybe only hundreds) for a variety of clients, and found them to be very flexible and full-featured when it comes to installed modules.

Just to be sure, however (and I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to think of it…) I will contact the host and make absolutely sure that mod_rewrite is installed…

zem · 2005-10-29 00:20:15

Can you post your diagnostics, please?

evilmonkey · 2005-10-29 00:32:25

> zem wrote:

> Can you post your diagnostics, please?

Of course… although now that I read through the diagnostics, I think I know where you’re going to verify things (just the guidance I needed, I suspect!)…

Textpattern version: 4.0.1 (r888)
last_update: 2005-10-03 21:06:03/2005-10-03 20:55:24
Document root: /home/josesier/public_html
$path_to_site: /home/josesier/public_html
Textpattern path: /home/josesier/public_html/textpattern
Permanent link mode: section_id_title
open_basedir: /home/josesier/:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp
Temp folder: /tmp
Site URL: www.josesierra.com
PHP version: 4.4.0
Register globals: 1
Magic quotes: 1/0
MySQL: 4.0.25-standard
Locale: en_US.UTF-8
Server:
Apache version:

Pre-flight check:
————————————
Clean URLs are only supported for apache, use at your own risk
————————————

.htaccess file contents: ————————————

~~FrontPage~~

IndexIgnore .htaccess /.?? ~ *# */HEADER /README /_vti

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName www.josesierra.com
AuthUserFile /home/josesier/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/josesier/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

————————————

Charset (default/config): latin1/latin1
character_set: latin1
character_sets: latin1 big5 czech euc_kr gb2312 gbk latin1_de sjis tis620 ujis dec8 dos german1 hp8 koi8_ru latin2 swe7 usa7 cp1251 danish hebrew win1251 estonia hungarian koi8_ukr win1251ukr greek win1250 croat cp1257 latin5
18 Tables: OK

PHP extensions: zip, xmlrpc/0.51, xml, wddx, tokenizer/0.1, swf, standard/4.4.0, sockets, session, pspell, posix, pcre, overload, mysql, ming, mhash, mcrypt, mbstring, imap, gettext, gd, ftp, exif/1.4 $Id: exif.c,v 1.118.2.37 2005/03/22 22:07:03 edink Exp $, domxml/20020815, curl, ctype, calendar, bcmath, zlib/1.1, openssl, apache, Zend Optimizer
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zem · 2005-10-29 00:46:07

Your .htaccess file isn’t the one that comes with Textpattern, and doesn’t include any of the rewrite rules necessary for it to work.

evilmonkey · 2005-10-29 00:59:03

> zem wrote:

> Your .htaccess file isn’t the one that comes with Textpattern, and doesn’t include any of the rewrite rules necessary for it to work.

ROTFLMAO…

I can be such a monkey sometimes. Thank you so much for your guidance… it works beautifully now. You’re the best!

Jose

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