Wordpress permalinks setting breaks Vanilla - any solution?
  • Vote Up0Vote Down whereistomwhereistom February 7
    Posts: 2

    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

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  • Vote Up0Vote Down LincolnLincoln February 7
    Posts: 609

    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.

  • Vote Up0Vote Down whereistomwhereistom February 7
    Posts: 2

    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! :-)

  • Vote Up0Vote Down LincolnLincoln February 7
    Posts: 609

    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. :-/

  • Vote Up0Vote Down TerminalAddictTerminalAddict February 8
    Posts: 23

    read the howto written by TerminalAddict (on this forum)

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