Downloads redirect to 404 page

[jlm]

Hi,

I installed the plugin at romanticminute.com/wordrpess. Here is my first download:

http://www.romanticminute.com/wordpress/love-coupons-set-1/

Here is my downloads page:

http://www.romanticminute.com/wordpress/downloads

All of the links redirect to a 404 page.

I was wondering if you might take a look or provide some guidance. Thanks so much!

Jackie

[jlm]

Hi,

I fixed this so that it would work with the nice Permalinks.  I updated the templates:

Download Listing Template:

Code:

<p><img src="http://www.romanticminute.com/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/downloadmanager/images/drive_go.gif" alt="Download: %FILE_NAME%" title="Download: %FILE_NAME%" style="vertical-align: middle;" />&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><a href="http://www.romanticminute.com/wordpress/?dl_id=%FILE_ID%" title="Download: %FILE_NAME%">%FILE_NAME%</a></strong><br /><strong>&raquo; %FILE_SIZE% - %FILE_HITS% hits - %FILE_DATE%</strong><br />%FILE_DESCRIPTION%</p>

Download Embedded Template

Code:

<p><img src="http://www.romanticminute.com/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/downloadmanager/images/drive_go.gif" alt="Download: %FILE_NAME%" title="Download: %FILE_NAME%" style="vertical-align: middle;" />&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><a href="http://www.romanticminute.com/wordpress/?dl_id=%FILE_ID%" title="Download: %FILE_NAME%">%FILE_NAME%</a></strong> (%FILE_SIZE%, %FILE_HITS% hits)</p>

Everything seems to be working now. Thanks!

Jackie

[GaMerZ]

This might help you http://forums.lesterchan.net/index.php/topic,764.40/p,43.html

[jlm]

Thanks. I read that. I am using PHP version 5.2.0. I think it has to do with the permalink structure I'm using: /%postname%/.

The above code I posted is working just find, so I'll use that.

Thanks for the reply and great plugins.

Jackie

[GaMerZ]

thanks for contributing the solution

EDIT: I have created a sticky on it.

[bulletbrain]

Thanks for that, I was thinking far too much about wordpress and WP-DownloadManager coding/permalinks and forgot the now obvious easy template route (couldn't see the wood for the trees)

However, instead of using something like:

Code:

href="http://www.mysite.com/wordpress/?dl_id=%FILE_ID%"

I just used

Code:

href="?dl_id=%FILE_ID%"

and all now works fine 

[Ttech]

Ok. Glad it works...

[cmm225]

Yea, I got this problem as well.

However, since I still wanted prettier URLS, I changed my .htaccess to

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule dl-([0-9]*) ?dl_id=$1 [NC]

And changed my links from ?dl_id=%FILE_ID% to dl-%FILE_ID%

and now it works like http://mysite.com/dl-1


I've tried a couple other combinations, which don't work, link /dl/1, or at least I couldn't get them to work.

but, I like http://mysite.com/dl-1

[GaMerZ]

cool, thanks for sharing

[Ttech]

Ny sytem is just aobut up! I just need to restor my Thunberbird and Firefox Profiles and settings. Then Install Apache and PHP. GaMerZ do you know how to set up Perl and Python properly?

[GaMerZ]

eh, no idea man

[Ttech]

Hmm... Thanks

[David Potter]

This solved the problem for downloads, but I still get the 404 redirects for category pages (e.g. http://david.blogs.dpotter.net/Technical/downloads/?dl_cat=2).  I have PermaLinks set to date and name based, which sets it to this:

Code:

/index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

You can see my download page here:  http://david.blogs.dpotter.net/Technical/index.php/downloads/

Has anyone figured out how to solve this problem for category pages?

In case it makes a difference, I'm running WordPress 2.2.3 on this blog.

Thanks,
David

[Ttech]

Perfect Timing!
   I just finished looking over this plugin.

  Here is your problem.
   The link you gave me for your downloads page has "index.php" in it. But the category for your downloads page does not have index.php in it.So something is happening to your permalinks causing it to not add the index.php, making it break. Perhaps maybe try removing /index.php and regenerating permalinks. See if it works then.

BTW: I like the Information in your Profile. Really helpful! Good... No Great idea!

[David Potter]

Thanks

When I remove index.php from my permalink structure, I can no longer get to any page.  Looking at it from a web server standpoint, this makes sense, since there isn't a folder at http://david.blogs.dpotter.net/Technical/downloads.  The only way I can see for this to work (with my limited experience with WordPress) is to get index.php added to the category page URL.  Can that be done?

Thanks,
David

[GaMerZ]

does "index.php/downloads" works for you? because it works for me on Linux

[David Potter]

Alright, I'm an idiot.  I didn't notice that there was a place on the Download Options page for me to specify the URL for the downloads page.  Adding index.php/ before downloads did the trick.  Thanks for the help.

By the way, the comment below the downloads page URL text control says that it should be specified without a trailing slash.  I didn't touch it until now and it had a trailing slash.  It seems to work fine with or without one.

Thanks,
David

[David Potter]

Hmm, as I examine this further, it seems odd to me that the index.php wasn't there to begin with.  How is the default downloads page URL generated?  I wonder if the other problem discussed in this thread could be solved if the downloads page URL was fixed by default.

I decided to revert my download listing template to the default where it uses %FILE_DOWNLOAD_URL%.  It doesn't have the index.php in it either.  Any idea why?

Thanks,
David

[Ttech]

Hmm... I don't know...  But it did work?

[David Potter]

Yep, it works if I specify this for the down link:  "?dl_id=%FILE_ID%"
This produces a link that looks like ths:  http://david.blogs.dpotter.net/Technical/index.php/downloads/?dl_id=1

It does not work when I specify this (which is from the default template):  "%FILE_DOWNLOAD_URL%"
This produces a link that looks like this:  http://david.blogs.dpotter.net/Technical/download/1/

I like the second URL, but it sends you to a 404 page.  It just seems odd to me that the FILE_DOWNLOAD_URL contains an URL that doesn't work.  I'm sure you spent a bunch of time testing it so it makes me wonder what's different about my configuration.  By the way, I tried the /download/1/ link with index.php inserted before it (http://david.blogs.dpotter.net/Technical/index.php/download/1/) and it just took me to my home page.

Thanks,
David