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Why Won't Fishpig Set the Magento Blog URL Correctly?

So, a client of mine has this Magento site set up:

http://kharmakhare.com

I have actually asked a question about this site before. This time, they want a blog set up at:

http://kharmakhare.com/blog

Yes, there is one already there. They want to replace that AW Blog with a Wordpress blog integrated into the Magento theme with Wordpress. There's just one problem; I can't get the url to change at ALL.

No matter what I do, the blog always appears at:

http://kharmakhare.com/wordpress

I try to disable the AW Blog and test the new one at:

http://kharmakhare.com/blog

But nothing happens. The above url simply redirects to the main site.

All of my Wordpress Integration settings are green (except for "improve your blog"). If I disable Wordpress Integration in the settings, the /wordpress directory STILL appears.

In Wordpress, the site url is set to /blog. The wordpress url is /wp. Whenever I try changing the permalink settings Wordpress fails to create the .htaccess file, so I did it manually... but it always uses /blog in the settings:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Not that it matters much. Even with it set to:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wp/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

It still doesn't work.

This has been a real, real pain to set up. The documentation says its easy, everything I've read says its easy. It just plain won't work for me. I even tried reinstalling the plugin. Then I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin. I also tried (before this) uninstalling and reinstalling wordpress. Nothing works.

I can NOT delete the AW blog without having the new blog to replace it. I can disable the AW blog temporarily, but I can't delete it. Is there anything that I'm missing?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Solution

  • Ok, I think this must be a bug in the plugin. The ONLY way I could get this to work is to edit the Fishpig plugin's core so that the default route is "blog."

    Not an ideal solution, but at least it works. This should not be such a problem, though, the plugin should work as its intended without modifying the core files.