As you can see, after a few fits-and-starts, “walls of the city” appears to be fully functional again. Yes, the theme is going to change over the coming days/weeks, but it will settle back down again.
Unfortunately, those RewriteRules I thought would fix everything, in fact, did not, and actually broke a lot of things when I tried to implement them. However, a hearty thanks goes out to Standard Mischief for suggesting the “Redirect permanent” concept, which appears to be working for the old feed addresses.
As a reminder, the new RSS2 feed address is http://www.wallsofthecity.net/feed/, and the new Atom feed address is http://www.wallsofthecity.net/feed/atom/. The “Redirect permanent” seems to be forwarding things nicely, but please go ahead and update your links.
Thanks for your patience… Regular posting will resume… at some point.
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Looks good Linoge! Nice clean theme.
Being of a variable width, how does the theme handle images? Does it scale them, or keep them a fixed width?
So far as I can tell, WP keeps them a fixed width, but the theme I am running (something called “Atahualpa”) allows you to adjust damned near anything… I will have to poke around and see what its settings can affect.
Suffice to say, though, a lot of things are going to be changing over the next few days
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sorry, it’s just not working for me. Here’s what I get:
SM@browncoat:~$ curl -I “http://www.wallsofthecity.net/atom.xml”
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:45:48 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.12
X-Pingback: http://www.wallsofthecity.net/xmlrpc.php
Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0
Pragma: no-cache
Last-Modified: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:45:49 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
using the -I command in curl lets me look at the raw headers. I’m getting a 404 instead of a 301.
The new feed is working OK. Here I add the “L” option to allow the feed to be redirected:
SM@browncoat:~$ curl -IL “http://www.wallsofthecity.net/feed/”
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:49:42 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.12
X-Pingback: http://www.wallsofthecity.net/xmlrpc.php
ETag: “3c8e0d7dd4cfe795b6c35f7d818fc37b”
Last-Modified: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:37:48 GMT
Location: http://www.wallsofthecity.net/feed
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/html
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:49:44 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.12
X-Pingback: http://www.wallsofthecity.net/xmlrpc.php
ETag: “3c8e0d7dd4cfe795b6c35f7d818fc37b”
Last-Modified: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:37:48 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8
http://www.wallsofthecity.net/xmlrpc.php is the actual page that creates the feed, but it’s an ugly URL so WordPress pretties it up.
The only thing I can think of is that later rules in your .htaccess modify the request somehow. The reason this is such voodoo is because you do it just often enough that you forget the mischief between sessions.
Bugger all. It was working, then I just had to go and change something (to unbreak my “/stats/” directory), and then forget to compensate for it or check it. Should be fixed now.
Though I do recommend RSS2 with WP – seems to be a bit more polished, though I need to find a plugin like what Caleb seems to be running for his feeds.
curl -IL “http://www.wallsofthecity.net/rss.xml” get me a 404, but the other feed is working OK.
Another odd thing is that my old RSS aggravater use to change the saved feed when it encountered a 301. Now it treats a 301 the same as a 302 “moved temp”
anyway I like the theme, except I’d fool with the colors some myself. I wonder how it handles displaying code (which my ugly theme does pretty well).
Congrats on getting it done faster than I ever could.
In all honest, SM, your “Redirect permanent” code is to credit for me being able to get this done so quickly – RewriteEngine and I were not getting along, and still are not, so that little bit of code saved my figurative arse.
Rss.xml never existed with MT, so far as I know, but I can redirect that one too. Index.xml was the RSS2 feed.
Unfortunately, Google Reader does not seem to update old links regardless of the code output, so I guess I will just have to nudge people occasionally to update their links manually.
And, yeah, I am definitely leaning towards a darker color palette, but the same basic idea. As for code…
Testing.Testing.
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Let us see how that comes out.
Very nice. See you brightened the place up some. I always preferred dark text on a light background.
Direct copy/paste from your post, so that’s why I tested it. Now that it’s working I’ll update my reader to the standard wordpress ones.
Kevin S: Unfortunately, I am probably going to go back to something very similar to what I had… but a little different, perhaps. We will see how it turns out
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Standard Mischief: ….Aaaand, I am an idiot. Come to think of it, I really do not remember what file MT used, but at least everything appears to be pointing in the right direction now
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