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Started 2 years ago by Darren
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Darren
Neurotic Guy

Originally reported by pmo238 here:

I installed the latest version (2.0) of the plugin (it's a great one!) and am having a problem with the series TOC page. I am running WP 2.3.3, PHP 5.2.5, MySQL 5.0.44, under Windows 2003 server with IIS 6 (running with a URL rewriter ISAPI filter for IIS).

The URL for the series is the default one http://blogURL/series/ in the admin control panel. I keep getting a 404 error just for the TOC link, the series parts postings come up fine. Do I have to create a series TOC page and point to that within the series control panel?

Thanks for any help/ideas/etc...

Posted 2 years ago #
Darren
Neurotic Guy

pmo238:
Quick question (and maybe a dumb one but I'll ask anyway) - do you have permalinks enabled with your install of WordPress (i.e. something like yourblogurl.com/category/category_slug instead of yourblogurl.com?id=31)?

Posted 2 years ago #
Anonymous
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...Yep, i have modified my permalinks to use /%category%/%postname%/ and i also am using a category base of /category . A category page link would be myblog/category/news-slug and an article linke /myblog/news-slug/post-slug.

After installing and activating the series plugin, I re-updated the permalinks so the series should have picked up the structure...

Posted 2 years ago #
Darren
Neurotic Guy

Thanks for helping me troubleshoot this,
Alright, it's good you tried re-updating the permalinks but that shouldn't be necessary because I've added added a rewrite flush to the plugin init so that the permalinks structure should update automatically (something that wasn't in orgSeries 2.0 beta). I suspect this has something to do with the way Windoze does rewrites but I thought I accounted for that especially since I'm using a built in template_redirect() hook for the series toc

A couple more questions:
1. When you get the 404, what address is being looked up (in other words is it the expected one ...blogURL/series/ or something different
2. Do your series archive pages load up okay (i.e. http://blogURL/series/series_slug) If not, what address is being looked up.

Posted 2 years ago #
Anonymous
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The 404 error is appearing for what looks like a proper series TOC page. This is the actual URL:
http://ewdev01/breakbulk/content/series/2008-industry-knowledge-series/

The /content is where WP resides. All other pages appear fine for the series parts... like :
http://ewdev01/breakbulk/content/series-post/entry-1/

/series-post is the category that I am using for all series postings so they don't get mixed in with the main news category that I have.

Thanks for your help with this...

Posted 2 years ago #
Darren
Neurotic Guy

I have some ideas now what's causing the problems then. I won't get to it 'till later tonight but when I get a fix to try I'll post here.

Posted 2 years ago #
Darren
Neurotic Guy
I need some more help with getting to the bottom of this.

Can open orgSeries-options.php and go to line 460. After this set of code...
```
Enter the path where you want the Series Table of Contents to be shown

			</div>
```
Insert this on a new line:
```
<?php
	$template_path = TEMPLATEPATH;
	echo 'TEMPLATE PATH' . $template_path;
	global $rewrite;
	$rewrite_test = $wp_rewrite->root;
	echo 'REWRITE_ROOT' . $rewrite_test;

?>
```
Then visit your Series Options page in the admin and can you let me know what values are displayed for TEMPLATE PATH and REWRITE_ROOT (right below the series_toc url field).
Posted 2 years ago #
Anonymous
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This is what I see after adding the code above...

Series Table of Contents URL:
http://ewdev01/breakbulk/content/

Enter the path where you want the Series Table of Contents to be shown
TEMPLATE PATHC:\Inetpub\wwwroot\breakbulk\content/wp-content/themes/breakbulk
REWRITE_ROOT

Posted 2 years ago #
Anonymous
Unregistered

Actually, the series content URL should be http://ewdev01/breakbulk/content/series/

The copy and paste did not catch the "series/" from the form.

Posted 2 years ago #
Darren
Neurotic Guy

Thanks that helps me troubleshoot and it is as I expected confirming what I thought the problem is. I *think* I have a solution that will work but I won't be able to actually code it up until later tonight or possibly tomorrow. Since My webhost is moving things around this weekend do you mind me emailing you any fixes and try eliminating this bug over the weekend? I don't have a IIS setup to test on. (I'll use the email you registered with on the forums - unless you want to use something different)

Posted 2 years ago #
Anonymous
Unregistered

That would be great. Email is fine by me. The registered email address would be excellent. THanks.

Posted 2 years ago #
Darren
Neurotic Guy
Okay we've discovered that this was caused by a plugin conflict with A StickyPostOrderER plugin that pmo238 was using. Due to the way this plugin was designed there's nothing I can do with orgSeries to fix this. However, if you apply this patch to A StickyPostOrderER you'll be able to use both plugins:

On line 20 right under the comment //Main stuff Add the following line
if (function_exists('is_series') && !is_series())

You'll end up with this on line 20 to 21:
```
if (function_exists('is_series') && !is_series())
	add_filter('posts_request','croer_the_sort');
```
Posted 2 years ago #

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