Blog

The blog hasn't had a facelift in a long time.

setup

Moved wp is so broken. What is the overall theory of directories, permalinks, rewrite rules and front page displays?

when I changed servers I decided to put my old wp in its own directory. I followed http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory, read about http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks as well as http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page. Some how I have gotten things in a terrible convoluted state. I am in an infinite loop of change in .htaccess, index.php, permalinks and static pages with something always left broken. I need to know the concept instead of following 'copy don't move this' , 'update your permalinks that'.

It might be a problem that I named the subdirectory 'blog'.

The state right now is: I can get to wp-admin (whew). The site loads but not with the static page but with the blog. It shows the blog but if I click on a blog post it 404's. The state of the settings is:
in root:

index.php is

<?php
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require('.blog/wp-blog-header.php');
?>

.htaccess is

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?sitebuilt.net$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ blog [L]
# END WordPress
</IfModule>

in /blog:

index.php is:

<?php
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require('./wp-blog-header.php');
?>

.htaccess is

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

settings->permalinks is /%postname%/

pages->static_homepage is called 'home', the permalink is http://www/sitebuilt.net and it won't let me change it.

pages->place-holder_for_posts is called 'blogposts' and its permalink is http://www/sitebuilt.net/blogposts

With this setup permalinks are right off the hostname and it can't find them. I've changes stuff so permalinks say http://www.sitebuilt.net/blog/mypost and it still can't find them. Where are they?

topics

cool companies

cool ideas

cool technology

occupy

drafts

front page

more like an about me page

Sitebuilt.net is a portal to Tim McKenna's <a href="http://sitebuilt.net/wiki">w</a>eb sites and other stuff. Sitebuilt (Systems Inc.) was the name of the <a title="house building" href="http://sitebuilt.net/sitebuilt-houses" target="_self">house building</a> company I ran for thirty years.

<a href="http://sitebuilt.net/noah">Noah</a> is taking a picture of the rest of the <a href="http://sitebuilt.net/family" target="_self">family</a> as we climb to meet him on a hill near Bamenda in <a href="http://sitebuilt.net/cameroon">Cameroon</a>. Peri is in the center, I'm on the right, Toby is behind Ari. I was on a Christmas break from my <a href="http://www.sitebuilt.net/wiki/Resume">job</a> as a <a href="http://www.pathboston.com/hum4/On_teaching">teacher</a> at <a href="http://www.pathboston.com/hum4">PATH</a>.

For six years I taught <a href="http://www.pathboston.com/hum4">Humanities</a> mainly, sometimes math. Before that I was a PhD Candidate at BU in brain science. The courses were great but I left ABD (all but dissertation). I got listed on one <a href="http://profusion.bu.edu/techlab/modules/references/view_article.php?id=23">paper</a>.

There are better ways to educate our kids.

We have to re-claim our democracy and create a healthy middle class.

What is cool about capitalism.

Tech and creating the future.