[okfn-help] Big problem with okfestival blog domain permalinks

Mon Aug 20 15:24:50 UTC 2012

Thanks Bobby - trying this as well.
Kat

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On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Bobby Donovan <bobby at bobbydonovan.com>wrote:

> You may simply need to flush the Wordpress rewrite rules to force a
> refresh on your permalink structure. Rather than trying to re-save each
> page, go to Settings > Permalinks and just click save. You don't need to
> change anything here. Simply re-saving the existing setting will recreate
> all permalinks.
>
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Kat Braybrooke <kat.braybrooke at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>> Thanks Rufus - going to okfestival.org does now work.
>>
>> The individual new pages still seem to not work even with the domain
>> fixed, but I've noticed that if you change the individual URLs for each to
>> something shorter, the new URL works (Juha, it looks like we'll have to do
>> this for *all* new pages that aren't working...)
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> http://okfestival.org/topic-stream-open-research-and-education/school-of-data-and-school-of-open/
>>
>> <- didn't work, so I changed it to:
>> http://okfestival.org/schoolofdata/
>> (which does work).
>>
>> Juha, let me know if you're able to log in on your server now?
>>
>> Thanks again, all.
>> Kat
>>
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>> | Kat Braybrooke | London, UK
>> | The Open Knowledge Foundation <http://okfn.org/>
>> | Coordinator of OKFestival 2012 <http://okfestival.org/> & Regional
>> Groups <http://okfn.org/chapters>
>> | Twitter @kat_braybrooke <http://twitter.com/kat_braybrooke> | Skype
>> @ardent_coeur
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:
>>
>>> On 20 August 2012 11:38, Kat Braybrooke <kat.braybrooke at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>
>>>> We have a problem with the okfestival.org blog domain - for some
>>>> reason, whenever we try to create a new page (as of this morning and late
>>>> last night) the domain permalink starts with okfestival.okfn.org/(*instead of*
>>>> okfestival.org/ <- the correct domain). This is causing redirect
>>>> problems (ie, no one can go to any of the new pages) and is a major problem
>>>> for several people trying to create new pages today on OKFestival.org.
>>>>
>>>
>>> We've noticed this for several sites since we moved to the new hoster
>>> (i.e. xyz.okfn.org).
>>>
>>> However it has not been causing problems for the pages themselves as
>>> they will work with the correct domain. Are you experiencing actual
>>> problems with okfestival.org/{page-name}<http://okfestival.org/%7Bpage-name%7D>not resolving?
>>>
>>> In any case I've now looked in the setting in the *network admin*
>>> section and that was set to http://okfestival.okfn.org/ I've updated
>>> this to http://okfestival.org and it seems to have corrected the issue
>>> with site showing up at http://okfestival.okfn.org/
>>>
>>> It *also* seems to have resolved the www.okfestival.org redirect loop.
>>>
>>> I suspect that there is a change in the latest wordpress that has moved
>>> home and site url settings from per site configuration to network admin
>>> settings and this has caused the problem.
>>>
>>> Rufus
>>>
>>> Sorry to be a pain, but the OKFest team is currently trying to create
>>>> 60+ pages for invididual sessions at the festival, all of which need to be
>>>> finished for public use by the end of this week.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know how to fix this? I've tried to empty the site cache
>>>> already, and change permalinks manually, but the okfn.org addition
>>>> remains.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Kat
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> | Kat Braybrooke | London, UK
>>>> | The Open Knowledge Foundation <http://okfn.org/>
>>>> | Coordinator of OKFestival 2012 <http://okfestival.org/> & Regional
>>>> Groups <http://okfn.org/chapters>
>>>> | Twitter @kat_braybrooke <http://twitter.com/kat_braybrooke> | Skype
>>>> @ardent_coeur
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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