Rewrite Module Turns Off Spontaenously

Is there any reason why the setting for the WPG2 rewrite module would turn itself off without my input? When it's turned on everything works fine, but I'll come back sometime later it's turned off. Would it turn itself off if some error is encountered in the mean time? If so, how would I track that down?

Thanks!

Yes, sometimes the permalinks/rewrite plugin in gallery will turn off spontaneously, like what you have happening. Perhaps we have the same root cause, then. Does your problem happen right away? Or does it happen when you're not looking (i.e. you have no idea when), like me?

Wordpress 2.3.2
WPG 3.0.2
Gallery version = 2.2.4 core 1.2.0.6
PHP version = 5.2.1 cgi
Webserver = Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP-CGI/0.1b
Database = mysql 4.1.22-standard, lock.system=flock
Toolkits = ArchiveUpload, Exif, ImageMagick, Gd, Ffmpeg, NetPBM, LinkItemToolkit, Thumbnail
Acceleration = none/43200, none/3600
Operating system = Linux iaso.site5.com 2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Dec 19 16:01:12 EST 2007 i686
Default theme = wordpressembedded
gettext = enabled
Locale = en_US
Browser = Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070919 Firefox/2.0.0.7
Rows in GalleryAccessMap table = 78
Rows in GalleryAccessSubscriberMap table = 4962
Rows in GalleryUser table = 3
Rows in GalleryItem table = 4959
Rows in GalleryAlbumItem table = 149
Rows in GalleryCacheMap table = 0

Hi ozgreg,

here is the wpg2 status of my site:

Wordpress Permalinks Active? Yes
Does Gallery2 Rewrite Plugin Exists? Yes
Can Gallery2 Rewrite Plugin be Activated? No
Is Gallery2 Rewrite using Apache Mod_Rewrite? Skipped Due to Previous Failure
Wordpress .htaccess can be updated? Skipped Due to Previous Failure

Error: Gallery2 Rewrite Plugin cannot be activated
WPG2 cannot remotely activate the Gallery2 Rewrite Plugin. Please manually configure the Gallery2 Rewrite Plugin from the Gallery2 Site Admin Plugin Panel.

As proposed, I manually reactivated the gallery rewrite module and the gallery permalink module.

[EDIT:]After this the screen looks like that:

Wordpress Permalinks Active? Yes
Does Gallery2 Rewrite Plugin Exists? Yes
Can Gallery2 Rewrite Plugin be Activated? Yes
Is Gallery2 Rewrite using Apache Mod_Rewrite? Yes
Wordpress .htaccess can be updated? Yes

Both modules in the Gallery are disabled again...

Thanks for your support,
Jens
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Yes, you are right,

the error was sitting in front of my pc ;-)
I have had only to reactivate the g2 permalink module once - now all works really fine.

Up to the last tests the permissions for the .htaccess file located at the WP root were too low. I have had edited it manually via ftp. So I did not see the option to turn on or off the g2 rewrite before. Would it make sense (in a further version of wpg2) to turn off the automated deactivation of the g2 rewrite module?
As I experienced I am expecting a disable of the g2 url rewrite module (and the depending ones) again as soon as I would "write protect" the .htaccess file in the WP root.

If this will not be an advantage for this great plugin forget my proposal.

Thanks again,
Jens

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After waiting a few days to ensure the problem had gone away, it seems that wp-super-cache <http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/> and WPG2 don't like to play together. I turned off wp-super-cache for the last few days and WPG2 rewrites haven't broken yet. It would have typically broken by now. I figure it's probable that wp-super-cache conflicts with WPG2 on "A) WP Permalink change," above.

I'm going to investigate further and see if I can figure out what exactly wp-super-cache is doing to confuse WPG2.

The early results are hinting in a different direction: memory limits. I 'tail -f'ed my apache error_log and I was getting a php fatal error saying that I was hitting the memory limit. I increased the memory limit in my php.ini file and it seems to be working (better) now. I'm not going to declare victory yet - I'll wait a few days and play with it a bit more. It still doesn't make sense to why the WPG2 rewrites was turning itself off, even with a memory limit problem.

Heyho,

I'm having a similar problem. I've configured my G2 properly, rewrite module on. Now I installed the WPG2 plugin, and some parts of it work.
Here's the problems:
(1)

I mean, that's simply a lie. It gets disabled all the time I hit F5 in the menu, then I enable it again in G2, and the next time I check the plugin in WP, it disables the rewrite module again.
Why?

(2)

I read 2 hours about that stupid file ... I even changed the permissions to 777, but still I get this error message

Please help me
Thanks

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In case you need the link to my gallery in order to answer my help requests:
revelation-of-silence DOT com SLASH gallery

ozgreg,

I've waited a few days and I've had no more error_log messages about memory limits, but my rewrites turned off again. So I'm back to trying to figure this out. In your post above, you say that a "WP Permalink change" will cause WPG2 rewrites to flip. What exactly does this mean? Does it mean a change in the content of .htaccess? Or does it look at the update time of .htaccess?

Thanks!

Hello Ozgreg,

thank you for your reply. Unfortunately, some other issues came up, and I'm pretty sure it was "caused" by installing the WPG2 plugin. Now I'm not sure how to fix this issue, and I'd very hapoy if you could give me a hand.

(1) I had the G2 standalone (newest version) running, URL rewrites were working (e.g. http://www.revelation-of-silence.com/gallery/main.php/updates)
(2) I tried to get WPG2 for WP (newest version), had some issues with that rewrite thing.
(3) I disabled and deinstalled WPG2 (don't need it for my Blog anyway, I just wanted to check it).
(4) URL rewrites don't work anymore for my G2standalone, although I re-enabled them. Check the link, if you click it, the page simply stays white blank, no error messages or anything.

Now, you wrote:

Unfortunately, in my G2 plugin "URL rewrites", in the "setup" part there is written:

In "test" it says:

Testing if the server supports PHP Path Info.

I have no clue what that means - and I don't know what you mean with the PHP pathinfo ...

Could you please help me out with this? My main goal is to get my G2 working, I don't really care about the WPG2 module that much as long as my G2 standalone works again ...

Thank you very much

Torvon
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In case you need the link to my gallery in order to answer my help requests:
revelation-of-silence DOT com SLASH gallery

Thanks for your fast answer, Ozgreg!

The URL rewrite worked before I installed the WPG2 Wordpress plugin and disabled my URL rewrite module, so there was an interaction for sure (it also deactivated my G2 permalink addon). I tried to configure the WPG2 a bit, but decided I don't need it for my Blog. Deinstalled it, re-activated my 2 addons in G2 (URL rewrite and permalinks), and found out they don't work anymore.

I have my wordpress in /wordpress, and my gallery standalone in /wordpress/gallery. Now, I did the deactivate plugin/delete htaccess/upload again a few hours ago, in the /wordpress directory though.

I just checked, there isn't a file like that in /wordpress/gallery. I deactivated plugins, created file, but the URL rewrite still doesn't work.

Do you have any other idea what might be the problem?

Thanks again

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In case you need the link to my gallery in order to answer my help requests:
revelation-of-silence DOT com SLASH gallery