A little help with a wordpress installation

[Zenax]

Hey,

I have a blog all set up and running fine. However, I have just come across one slight problem with it. I think it is the way that I have my blog set up.

Every time I try and go to a folder in the main directory of my website (www) it thinks it is part of the blog and throws an 404 cannot find it error.

Any ideas?

Zenax
Edit:
Anyone???

 

[Slothie]

Don't quite see what's wrong, throw a couple of urls out

 

[vinayan]

404 error means file or folder missing , please check uppercase and lowercase in the folder/file name

 

[Zenax]

This is the thing you see. The folders are there, just that wordpress thinks that they are a catagory or something. Is it because it is in the mian directory of my word press installation?

http://justlife.exofire.net/programming/

This is a folder that exists. (see attachment)

do you understand now?

 

[disturbedart]

Try adding the link in your coding with the full link to see if it works.
eg. http://justlife.exofire.net/programming/ instead of just justlife.exofire.net/programming/
Try that and tell me what happens.

 

[Zenax]

I am not coding it into anything. I am just trying to figre this out so I can try and access the folder as a dir

I mean this works:

http://justlife.exofire.net/outside/flvplayer.swf

That works, as it is accessing a direct thing, however I cannot view it as a directory. This is slightly annoying.

 

[Slothie]

Its your mod_rewrite rules.

 

[Zenax]

any idea how to change them?

I am sorry to ask, however I am a bit of a noob in this.

 

[Zenax]

anyone? please help me dudes!

 

[leafypiggy]

i saw this on a website someware but I lost the link, google mod rewrite. it is part of the .htaccess file.

 

[Zenax]

I did, and I cant find a .htaccess file in my directory even though when I go to create it, it says the file already exists!

 

[munim]

every file in unix that starts with a dot is hidden.. i think there is an option in file manager to view hidden files... or use FTP.

 

[comicshop]

Did you try allowing directory listing?
create an .htaccess in programming/ with

Options +Indexes
IndexOptions +FancyIndexing

so that a 404 isn't generated (Edit: Just remembered that cpanel can do this for you through a dialog. Look for something like a directory access link.)

Just consider the possibility that this is a 404 redirect issues separate from WP.
Try accessing a ~mming/ content item like ~ing/text.txt to verify.