prev/next links and redirected domains

[davidmwilliams]

Fundamentally, I have a domain (alivad.com) which redirects via DNS to my ISP web space (​http://home.exetel.com.au/davidmwilliams). I set the WordPress URI to ​http://www.alivad.com and the Blog address to ​http://www.alivad.com - both are the same.

This works, in that WordPress shows links for posts, categories, pages, etc in the format I want, namely ​http://www.alivad.com/?blah

HOWEVER the previous and next page links at the bottom of the page are showing wrongly as ​http://www.alivad.com/davidmwilliams/index.php?paged=x (and, of course, these are invalid addresses).

I can't understand why the 'davidmwilliams' part is being added like that. It seems the next/prev page links are working out the address by a mixture of the blog address and the physical underlying directory. I am surmising it uses different code to generate the link than as used for posts, categories, etc.

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I originally submitted this as ticket 3933 (​http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3933) but that was prematurely closed. I do NOT believe the bug report should be closed. Unfortunately I do not have the authority level to append to tickets so I have no choice but to create a new one.

Responding to the comment by the premature closer: If I change the blog address then the links work in that they generate accurate links. However, they are no longer in the desired format - i.e. all page headings and all links show as ​http://home.exetel.com.au/davidmwilliams/... rather than ​http://www.alivad.com/...

Please understand, what I am trying to do is not obscure nor unreasonable nor ridiculous nor outlandish.

Let me restate the problem:

• The blog address is www.blah.com
• blah.com is a valid domain
• blah.com is redirected via DNS to www.isp.com/foo
• ALL page and category links are generated by WordPress as www.blah.com/... as expected and as desired
• The prev and next links do NOT display in that format; they show as www.blah.com/foo/... and hence refer to non-existant pages

The implications of this are:

• the prev/next link code is different to the code to generate links elsewhere
• the prev/next link code is itself determining the underlying page address and is not respecting the blog address that has been specified

I believe this is a bug. Even if others feel what I am doing is somehow "strange" I am sure it can be appreciated that the prev/next link code is not consistent with other link code, and that in itself is a reason for wanting some tidying.

[JeremyVisser]

Replying to davidmwilliams:

Unfortunately I do not have the authority level to append to tickets so I have no choice but to create a new one.

Since when?

[JeremyVisser]

Can you please not use Trac? Your previous ticket has been closed by the resident WordPress bug guru, so you should discuss it on the mailing list or forums.

[davidmwilliams]

Well, the trac site said I did not have the authority but yet allowed a new ticket to be opened.

If the person who closed the ticket is a "bug guru" then I am grossly disappointed by what passes as a guru. Indeed, I am really very surprised by how very friendly WordPress users and maintainers are until the point of asking questions about the software; I've found the responses to be aggressive and offensive. I am quite surprised.

If anyone seriously believes this is not a bug then I would be keen to know why. I do not believe it is sufficient to say "here's a bodgy workaround".

After all, it is quite evident that the code to generate prev/next links is working differently to the code which generates the page and category links - and they DO work in the way I would expect.

[davidmwilliams]

Let me ask this:

If I specify the blog address to be www.x.com but the software produces links - in just one area only, not in others - of the form www.y.com - is that not a bug?

[davidmwilliams]

Dudes, leave it with me.

I think WordPress is a great app. I'm a bit disappointed with the attitudes I've received by having the audacity to say I've experienced a problem.

I'll delve into the source code and work this out. I'll post my findings here for your consideration.

[westi]

I'm not sure which template functions you are talking about here.

I think you are talking about the post page links from next_posts/next_posts_link and previous_posts/previous_posts_link these use get_pagenum_link which is probably where we need to fix this issue.

Can you give more info / confirm this?

[davidmwilliams]

Thanks, westi, for the extremely helpful starting point !!

I will check those functions and get back to you soon. Much appreciated.

[westi]

See also #3930 for some improvements to get_pagenum_link which may help.

[davidmwilliams]

Hi Westi,

Thanks for the pointer where to look. I believe you are dead right; the issue is in get_pagenum_link. In particular, I'm thinking this line: $index = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];

Should that line actually be trying to retrieve the specified Blog address as set in the options screen?

[Nazgul]

Is this still a problem after #3930 was fixed?

[lloydbudd]

Replying to Nazgul:

Is this still a problem after #3930 was fixed?

No response from bug reporter, closing as works for me w/o verification.