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Vanilla 2 & Garden•Wordpress permalinks setting breaks Vanilla - any solution?

• • whereistom
  • February 7
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  Hi,
  
  A website I'm developing is running wordpress, with (edited!) wp running in the root directory, and Vanilla in its own directory underneath that. The only integration I have done between the two is including the wordpress /wp-blog-header.php file to allow me to share the menus, header and footer.
  
  The forum is here:
  http://213.175.217.160/~totalcri/total-cricket-forum/
  
  Everything was working fine until I set a permalink structure in Wordpress (/%category%/%postname%/)
  
  Doing that seems to prevent Vanilla's ajax get calls from working - for example clicking on the 'sign in' link fails (the lightbox opens but never loads the signin form)
  
  Using Firebug, I can see that the ajax getting the following url was returning a 404, despite it working fine if I go straight to that URL
  /index.php/entry/?Target=discussions&DeliveryType=VIEW
  
  Turning off Wordpress permalinks solves the problem, but isn't something I want to do (for SEO and usability reasons).
  
  My understanding of permalinks is sketchy to say the least - is there a way to override what I've set in Wordpress for the Vanilla directory? Or another solution?
  
  All help appreciated!
  
  Thanks
  Tom

• • Lincoln
  • February 7
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  There's probably a conflict between the .htaccess file settings required between the two.
  
  //edit: There's only 1 "root directory" for a website and you don't have Vanilla in it. ;) Yours is in a subfolder, which is fine.
  
  This sounds like a pretty complex issue; I don't know why it would effect only Ajax calls and not direct ones.

• • whereistom
  • February 7
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  Thanks for replying.
  
  So do permalinks have to be set at a per-site basis, not overrideable at a lower directory?
  
  (Root directory - sorry, typo! :-)

• • Lincoln
  • February 7
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  Honestly I just don't have any great insight on this one, but I expect I'll run into it soon as I'm trying to set up a site with similar requirements. I'll bookmark this and come back if I do and find the solution. Hopefully someone else will have a better idea in the meantime - there's too much overhead for me to set up everything to duplicate the problem today, sorry. :-/

• • TerminalAddict
  • February 8
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  read the howto written by TerminalAddict (on this forum)