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Does anybody have comments working? Anytime I try to post a comment I get redirected to http://wugga.com//wp-comments-post/ which returns a Not Found error. I just turned on mod_rewrite logging to try and figure it out but hoped someone may have already solved the problem.

See this post for more information that could help.

I've solved that by changing the .htaccess:

OLD:
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+)/wp-comments-post.php(.*) /wp-inst/wp-comments-post.php [L]

NEW:
RewriteRule ^wp-comments-post.php /wp-inst/wp-comments-post.php [L]

should be
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+)/?wp-comments-post.php(.*) /wp-inst/wp-comments-post.php [L]

thanks. I'm re-gening the whole system and will make the change in just a bit to see how things work out.

This doesnt work for me . When I try to post a comment I get rerouted to http://www.domain.com/wp-comments-post/

Doesn't seem like the comments are being saved

Falo's change worked for me, I did try TomK32's first but didn't have any joy.

ah, yes of course:
^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]*)/?wp-comments-post.php(.*) /wp-inst/wp-comments-post.php [L]
the + requires at least one char, the * doesn't. small differenct but big effect.

Thank you it works now.

Woks now for me too using:

^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]*)/?wp-comments-post.php(.*) /wp-inst/wp-comments-post.php [L]

I notice that my .htacess has the rewrite string for wp-comments-post.php twice. Once at the top of the "we want to pass these files straight through" section and then again about 6 or seven lines down. Since they are both a [L] I guess the second never gets seen. Is there a reason for two instances that I'm not getting/

maybe no one did clean it up for a long long time...

Maybe we can fill up and test heavily this section and pages at codex in the near future: http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPressMU#.htaccess

Hmm. I have the same problem but your solutions aren't working for me.

For some reason my .htaccess didn't get written with the new lines. Everything works fine now.

I am having trouble with comments using 2005-09-14 release I tried changing the .htaccess and still nothing. I am being just dumb?

Yes I was being dumb, I was missing the ? details, details

Update:- does the htaccess.dist need to changed to include the ?

changing the .htaccess is not working for me
I'm using the build from last night.

I ran the changes as suggested above and am having no luck. I am also using a one day old build. Were there changes I dont see?

worked for me as Falo said

was there a reason for the same line being in there twice, it was spoke of above but nobody said if it should be removed and which one to remove. This is what I have:

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]*)/?wp-comments-post.php(.*) BASE/wp-inst/wp-comments-post.php [L]

I tried tomk32's code from his ammended post and am getting a 404 when trying to submit a comment.

I replaced both lines (the first instance and the repeat) with the ammended code. Those of you who were able to use tomk32's code, did you replace both or just the first?

I haven't tried Falo's yet, any disadvantage to the code he posted? security?

Freq---

^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]*)/?wp-comments-post.php(.*) /wp-inst/wp-comments-post.php [L]

After much frustration from an otherwise pretty sound installation, this line from wugga fixed the comments not being posted.

Update on my last post above...

I changed the second instance of

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+)/wp-comments-post.php(.*) /wp-inst/wp-comments-post.php [L]

To:
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]*)/?wp-comments-post.php(.*) /wp-inst/wp-comments-post.php [L]

After much frustration from an otherwise pretty sound installation, this line from wugga fixed the comments not being posted.

Strange about that line coming up twice in the .htaccess, I assume the second one will override the first one by the ordering, or am I mistaken?

i used the above code from pumpkinslayer and it works

pumpkinslayer, I have found the exact opposite when working with the .htaccess... I continue to find that rules will be read from the top down and if it sees one that is the same as it goes down the document it tends to disregard it. I don't know if this is true from a technical standpoint, but it kicked my butt for a few days when trying to figure out another issue where I had double entries in the .htaccess and only modified the bottom one.

I think there are others rules like this, for example:

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+)/xmlrpc.php(.*) /wp-inst/xmlrpc.php [L]

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+)/wp-register.php(.*) /wp-inst/wp-register.php [L]

and so on, I think these rules have to be changed like wp-comments-post.php
What do you think?

My comments don't work ! ..... the code in the htaccess is :

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+)/wp-comments-post.php(.*) BASE/wp-inst/wp-comments-post.php [L]

i have tried the solution posted but don't work!!! how can resolve? thanks

Any one can help me?

I have:-

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]*)/?wp-comments-post.php(.*) /wp-inst/wp-comments-post.php [L]

Which seems to work fine, however I am running a Sept build which may cause some differences. However once you start playing around with .htaccess you can be at it for a long time as it can be like voodoo!

thanks ! but don't work yet !!! please help me...the installation has been executed by Tomk32 but now he don't reply to me !!! and i'm in difficult !....

sorry for my bad english !

tom32 have resolved......thanks at all

This is scarry, it's been 3 years since the last activity in this forum and I'm having almost the same problem however the .htaccess rules don't seem to have any effect as it's redirecting to the right page ie: http://helloandwelco.me/wp-comments-post.php however it just hangs there with a blank page, not returning an error, or anything, just stops. Any idea's?

I'm runnning wpmu 2.7 and buddypress 1.0

Your help would be appreciated!