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July 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Blade Edge

Hells yea. I finally got some free time earlier today to chat up Brinkster support and find out just what the hell is going on with this thing. As I alluded to in my last entry, I was having trouble with WordPress – clicking on any link besides external ones and ones directly referencing entries caused a CGI error to pop up. Turns out that was because I had set the blog to use permalinks for my entries and pages and whatnot. So I set the links back to default and everything worked dandy…. almost.

Because I have two subdomains, in order for you to be able to type in software.blade-edge.com and end up at the Blade Edge Software site, I need the root directory to contain a small script in the default.asp file that looks like the following:

Select Case SiteNameURL
Case "software.blade-edge.com"
    Response.redirect ("http://www.blade-edge.com/software/")
Case "production.blade-edge.com"
    Response.redirect ("http://www.blade-edge.com/production/")
Case Else
    Response.redirect ("http://www.blade-edge.com/blog/")
End Select

Originally that catch-all Else statement read:

Case Else
    Response.redirect ("http://www.blade-edge.com/")
End Select

And I had set WordPress to use the root directory as its home directory. Problem was, when it would call the root asking for a journal entry or page entry, it would do so like this: www.blade-edge.com/?p=8. Those of you who know about the web, the browser automagically fills in a default page, so that the URL to the browser looks like: www.blade-edge.com/default.asp?p=8. However, the WordPress main file is index.php, so the blog would actually be calling the redirect script, and the main page would re-load and appear to go nowhere. D’oh. So I removed WordPress’ ability to remain in the root directory, which is why the URL now reads www.blade-edge.com/blog

*sigh*

But the good news is that everything is once again running smoothly, I also hid warning messages that were popping up around certain public sections of the blog and not just the admin panel. If I hadn’t gotten distracted by Guitar Hero III the whole night, since I just got the PS3 version and was finally able to download some new content, I would have changed a few more things around here. But I’ll get to that this weekend. Right now, seeing as that it’s almost 6am, I better get some sleep. Sleep is good.

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