#53141 closed enhancement (fixed)
Improve permalinks settings error messages
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| Milestone: | 6.0 | Priority: | normal |
| Severity: | normal | Version: | |
| Component: | Permalinks | Keywords: | has-patch needs-copy-review |
| Focuses: | administration, ui-copy | Cc: |
Description (last modified by )
On ticket:40763#comment:6, @johnbillion recommended the removal of Ctrl + A and "we" wording for error messages about an unwritable file or root directory.
Screenshots (forcing the errors in options-permalink.php, as described in ticket:53142#comment:7):
See also #40582
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This ticket was mentioned in PR #2498 on WordPress/wordpress-develop by sabernhardt.
4 years ago
#3
- Add "Error:" prefix to the first message in each situation.
- Split the first sentence into two, rephrasing it without "we" language.
- Capitalize "URL" in two of the messages.
- Remove "for us" from the two messages about making the file or directory temporarily writable, and add "the" before "rule" in the
web.configmessage.
Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/53141
#4
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4 years ago
- Keywords needs-copy-review added
Updated text after r53047 (which added the Mac shortcut)
web.config is not writable
- Error: Your
web.configfile is not writable, so updating it automatically was not possible. This is the URL rewrite rule you should have in yourweb.configfile. Click in the field and pressCtrl + A(or⌘ + Aon Mac) to select all. Then insert this rule inside of the/<configuration>/<system.webServer>/<rewrite>/<rules>element inweb.configfile. - If you temporarily make your
web.configfile writable to generate rewrite rules automatically, do not forget to revert the permissions after the rule has been saved.
root directory is not writable to edit web.config
- Error: The root directory of your site is not writable, so creating a file automatically was not possible. Create a new file called
web.configin the root directory of your site. Then select and copy the URL rewrite rule below, and insert the entire code into theweb.configfile. Error: The root directory of your site is not writable, so creating a file automatically was not possible. This is the URL rewrite rule you should have in yourweb.configfile. Create a new file calledweb.configin the root directory of your site. Click in the field and pressCtrl + A(or⌘ + A) to select all. Then insert this code into theweb.configfile. - If you temporarily make your site's root directory writable to generate the
web.configfile automatically, do not forget to revert the permissions after the file has been created.
.htaccess is not writable
- Error: Your
.htaccessfile is not writable, so updating it automatically was not possible. These are the mod_rewrite rules you should have in your.htaccessfile. Click in the field and pressCtrl + A(or⌘ + Aon Mac) to select all.
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#5
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4 years ago
- Milestone changed from Awaiting Review to 6.0
Three of these five strings already need translating in 6.0, so any further changes would be good to complete within the same cycle.
#6
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4 years ago
- Owner set to peterwilsoncc
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
In 53127:
peterwilsoncc commented on PR #2498:
4 years ago
#7
Merged in https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/53127, thanks.
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53141.diff also adds error prefixes (as recommended in #50442).
web.configis not writableweb.configfile is not writable, so updating it automatically was not possible. Select and copy the URL rewrite rule below, and insert the entire code inside the/<configuration>/<system.webServer>/<rewrite>/<rules>element in theweb.configfile.web.configfile writable to generate rewrite rules automatically, do not forget to revert the permissions after rule has been saved.root directory is not writable to edit
web.configweb.configin the root directory of your site. Then select and copy the URL rewrite rule below, and insert the entire code into theweb.configfile.web.configfile automatically, do not forget to revert the permissions after the file has been created..htaccessis not writable.htaccessfile is not writable, so updating it automatically was not possible. Select and copy the mod_rewrite rules below, and insert the entire code inside the.htaccessfile.