“No input file specified” error

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-04-23T19:24:17Z in Technology. 146 words.

I checked this site about an hour ago and got the error message, no input file specified [1], with a blank page. I was trouble-shooting the problem, and found that disabling the Netfirms Pretty Permalinks [2] plugin fixed it. I blogged about this in January [3], as Netfirms wouldn’t support URIs without “/index.php,” without the work-around. Apparently Netfirms fixed this [4] one month ago, but I didn’t have any clashes till now.

Now everything’s fine (it was about twelve hours that pages except the home page were broken). Also, Canonical URIs [5] work now, so one like richardxthripp.thripp.com/index.php?p=139 [6] (generated by yak [7], my shopping cart plugin) will redirect to richardxthripp.thripp.com/photo-spores-of-the-sun-139 [8], like it should. I complained about this in my bugs list [9]; still, www.richardxthripp.thripp.com won’t go to richardxthripp.thripp.com, and changing the title of a post in the URI will work without redirecting as long as the post ID is correct, but it’s a step.

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URLs in this entry:
[1] no input file specified: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22no+input+file+specified%22+wordpress
[2] Netfirms Pretty Permalinks: http://www.joelika.com/netfirms-pretty-permalinks
[3] blogged about this in January: http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/sweet-progress-68
[4] fixed this: http://www.joelika.com/2008/03/24/266
[5] Canonical URIs: http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/wordpress-23-canonical-urls/
[6] richardxthripp.thripp.com/index.php?p=139: http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/index.php?p=139
[7] yak: http://www.briggs.net.nz/log/products/yak-for-wordpress
[8] richardxthripp.thripp.com/photo-spores-of-the-sun-139: http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/photo-spores-of-the-sun-139
[9] bugs list: http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/bugs