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6:45 pm
January 13, 2009

solarsun

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So I got my comic set up at http://www.sthhcomic.com with strip show add on. I can't thank you enough for such an add on. If it wern't for it then I'd have to manually add 1300+ to the directory..

Anyway the drop down menu doesn't seem to work. When someone chooses a storyline and hits go I get a 'do not have permission 404 error.'

Any help?

7:39 am
January 14, 2009

Brad

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I can see your issue, and I'll look into why it's happening. What version of stripShow are you running, and what version of WordPress?

UPDATE: Hmm. Very odd indeed. It's looking like it might be a permissions or webserver configuration issue. How much do you know about using a login shell to access your web host? Do you know what a .htaccess file is by any chance? I'd like to see what that file looks like on your system.

10:38 am
January 14, 2009

Brad

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OK, here's what I've found: The problem doesn't appear to be stripShow, or WordPress.

This is what's happening: When you select the storyline from the dropdown, it reloads the index page with a URL query, for example: http://sthhcomic.com/?story_redirect=ht … line_go=Go

This calls a particular function in stripShow, but what I've found is that that function doesn't have anything to do with your issue. I can change the query parameter to anything at all and it will do the same thing:

http://sthhcomic.com/?arbitrary_crap=ht … line_go=Go

There is no function in stripShow or WordPress to process an "arbitrary_crap" query, so it should do nothing and give the index page. However, it gives the same error.

So I started whittling it down, and I find this: It doesn't matter what the query type is, as long as it's got "http%3A%2F" in it, it's going to fail. I have no idea what sort of setting on a webserver would present this sort of issue. Perhaps the webserver just fails if it looks like there's a second URL in the URL.

Whatever the problem may be, I can work around it on the stripShow side. I'm putting together a maintenance release, 1.6.2, which will encode the URLs in the dropdown menu before sending them — this should work on your server. I'll let you know when I've put it up.

1:52 pm
January 14, 2009

solarsun

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Thank you! ^_^

I did think it was odd indeed how it was doing error. I don't know much about my webhost (I use hostigator and I think am on a linax server)

I'm using 1.6.1 of strip show and wordpress is 2.7.

Do you mean like a cpanel for login shell?

and no I don't know what a .htaccess file is. Let me go google to see what I can do.

6:14 am
January 15, 2009

Brad