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WordPress 2.6 Windows hosting issue
If you're hosting your WordPress blog on windows, you might consider holding off a bit on upgrading to 2.6. A bug has come up where permalinks aren't working the way they should... The issue has already been addressed in the support forums, but a fix hasn't been submitted yet.
I found out the hard way because Nina upgraded her blog, and her permalinks broke. We had to insert a category and tag base, which she didn't have before, to make it work (that is the "official" work around), but it isn't the nice clean solution you'd like.
On a side note, if you're considering WordPress, and want to host it yourself, I highly recommend Linux WordPress hosting over Windows hosting: you should go with WestHost, if you ask me...
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by Hasan Saleem on 16 July, 2008 at 14:01
It seems that the "best" content management system in the world will never have a stable version ever.
by Jelmer de Jong on 16 July, 2008 at 14:23
This isn't a Windows hostings issue. I had the same problem at our Linux + Apache environment. Thank you for pointing out the workaround.
by Devon Young on 16 July, 2008 at 14:55
Thanks for the tip there. I was about to upgrade the new version on a Windows platform for someone today. You just made my day a little easier.
by Chris on 16 July, 2008 at 20:37
"On a side note, if you're considering WordPress, and want to host it yourself, I highly recommend Linux hosting over Windows hosting..."
Oh, so many more reasons that just WordPress to host on Linux.
by richard baxter on 16 July, 2008 at 20:40
It's altogether possible that WP just isn't as thoroughly tested on Windows platforms. It's open source after all, so i wonder what % of the dev community are coding and hosting in Linux!
by Chris on 16 July, 2008 at 20:46
I wouldn't doubt it at all. Linux is so efficient I could never imagine migrating to a MS platform.
by Joost de Valk on 17 July, 2008 at 10:31
Glad I made some of your lives a bit eaiser, and richard baxter: you're 100% right :)
by Kat on 17 July, 2008 at 22:03
I had the same issue on Windows, although it works perfectly well on Linux+Apache. Thanks for the review as I thought I was the only one with the bug:) Great blog, BTW! Keep up the good work!
Kate
by Kathy on 18 July, 2008 at 17:35
I'm with Chris... this is reason #762 to host on Linux!