Cheryl - If there was any doubt that I adored you, let me remind everyone: YOU ROCK!
It was indeed a problem with my .htaccess file. I didn't even think of that! I was obsessing over php code and web logs but hadn't tried messing with the .htaccess. I went in and reordered a few of the rewrite rules and I actually got a pingback through! THANKS! Steve and Marcus thank you as well for your thought and suggestions. There may be more tweaking ahead for me but at least I've now seen it work and know where the road block was. Thanks, - Dave On Feb 19, 2008 3:13 PM, Cheryl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you checked in with your web host's support service or forums? > > I use Dreamhost, and every once in awhile something happens that seems > to be unique to their hosting service. I can't remember any exact > example, but I think I recall something with pretty permalinks and the > way my server handled mod_rewrite (it was on but not working as > expected). I ended up making a custom mod to my .htaccess file to fix > it. Another time I found the solution to a host/plugin incompatibility > in the forums. > > Once I had to edit my xmlrpc file to get my site to accept crossposts > from Flickr & Blip - they stopped working for *no apparant reason* - I > had not done an upgrade or anything. Here's my reference post about > that, in case it leads you to something useful: > http://www.hummingcrow.com/2007/06/19/fixed/ > > Cheryl > > --- In [email protected], "David Meade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > I have a gut feeling that the problem relates to using "pretty > > permalinks". There are functions in wordpress which attempt to get > > the post ID from the permalink, and these functions are called when a > > pingback comes in. > > > > On my test blog (with default permalink structure) pingbacks work > > fine. But at DavidMeade.com where permalinks are in the form of > > http://www.davidmeade.com/archives/419 the pingbacks aren't working. > > I'm wondering if wordpress is trying to get the post id in some way > > that is not compatible with the permalink structure I'm using. > > > > I just don't know enough about this process works to know exactly > > where it might be breaking. > > > > - Dave > > > > > > On Feb 19, 2008 10:19 AM, David Meade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > well it has the same permissions as every other wordpress file on > the site. > > > > > > For testing I changed it to 774 and still no good. > > > > > > - Dave > > > > > > > > > On Feb 19, 2008 9:53 AM, Markus Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Feb 19, 2008, at 6:44 AM, David Meade wrote: > > > > > > > > > My site > > > > > just will not receive pingbacks or trackbacks. It seems to > send them > > > > > ok, but it doesn't receive them. > > > > > > > > > > > > you probably checked this, but is the xmlrpc.php file in your wp > > > > folder with proper permissions/owner? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > http://www.DavidMeade.com > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > http://www.DavidMeade.com > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- http://www.DavidMeade.com
