Every link in my forum seems to not be working at all.
Anything I click on ends up refreshing the main forum page.
I’ve reset permissions, deleted all and recreated global permissions but nothing.
See here – http://resilientlivelihoods.christianaid.org.uk/discussion/
Any ideas?
As you can see the urls are actually being correctly created but are being ignored or – to be more accurate – re-directed back to the main page url.
The main three causes in recent years would be:
If none of the above then come on back and we can take a second look.
Thanks for the above.
Disabled the SEO plugin to see if that was having any affect and there was no difference.
I’m having this same problem as of this morning. Last week the forum was wroking great with no problems but this morning I log in and go to the forum page which works fine but any topic I click on the forum page I get logged out of wordpress and brought to a 404 page. I’ve been trying to figure it out for the last 4 hours without success. Very frustrating………….
Actually, my problem is slightly different although when I click on a link on the forum page it is going to the main forum page URL but I get a 404 page instead because it is logging me out of WP and I have protections on the forum………
Steve20: Yes – 404’s are a completely different issue.
Mark: Well – they are the easy ones to fix uo… so…
Something for you both to try please. Go to the forum admin > Integration > Page and Permalink panel.
Make sure the page selected at the top is the correcty page to displahy the forum on. If not then change t and update the form at the bottom.
The click on the Update Forum Permalink in the middle of the panel. Retry links please…
just to add to Andy’s comments – another thing that can mess them up is a wp caching plugin since forum content is dynamic… Mark, I dont see any obvious caching on your site…
I started a new thread as my problem was a bit different. It seems resolved now so I will keep my fingers crossed. Steve
Hey Swordfish,
checked the link and updated the permalink as instructed.
Mr. Papa – We do have W3 Total Cache installed but it’s not yet active due to conflicts with the windows server this is running on which we’re still resolving.
Still no joy.
I didn’t really think it would but it needed to be tried just in case!
If you look at the page you will see that, as I said before, all the links are being correctly generated but everything after the page name is being thrown away when the request is being made. This IS third-party interference of some kind and if you really have no plugins that might be effecting links then you probably need to look at the server. Perhaps mod_security is active and exceedingly zealous or there is something ion your .htaccess file but something you have there is stripping the url before the request is being sent or – when it is sent. You will notice that the address bar never changes…
Perhaps a conversation with your host would be a good next step.
I was beginning to think something similar.
Have you guys had issues in the past with Windows Server IIs7? Any special recommendations before I speak with the client??
They are self hosted so I need to have some suggestions before I go back in to them.
Steve (Mr Papa) may have something useful to add later when he is around. All I can really say is that I do know the WP community on the whole always says steer clear of IIS – not sure why though! We do have users with forums on IIS I can guarantee that – but they are rare I believe. Sorry I can’t personally shed more light on IIS specifics…
WP is constantly making tweaks to work with IIS… generally it does… is you IIS version at the latest? and wp version?
WP is at latest version not sure of IIS as it’s client server.
That said – it was working fine about a week ago and then this started to happen.