Julynell’s world

Argh! I hate IE…I finally am ready to put my new design online, did some last checks today and discovered IE f*cks up my layout! While at first, it all worked fine! So, I don’t understand anymore *scratches back of head*
I have a pretty good idea what’s causing the problem, what I don’t know is, what it will do in other browsers when I make the change. So I’m afraid I can’t escape creating a separate IE7 style sheet :@ which annoys me pretty bad! Let’s just hope it are minor changes I need to do and am finished with my separate IE style sheet tonight All what’s left then is filling my business related web pages (which are static pages with no sidebar etc.) with text and publish those and make a frontpage change and we’re good to go!
But first I need to address that annoying IE problem…

Well, for all of you out there bumping into the same permalinks nightmare I did, here is my story:
I, stupidly, tried to change my permalink structure from the ‘ugly’ default one, to a prettier looking link. I failed miserably. And even worse, I didn’t seem to be able to reverse the change.

After I changed the permalink structure in the admin panel, I got a 500-internal server error and my blog was no longer accessible, I kept getting the 500-internal server error .
I read in the wordpress codex that all you had to do was delete the htaccess file to fix that problem, so I did. And as I didn’t look any further, thought that fixed it. After I had the confirmation that the mod_rewrite wasn’t working on the webserver, I knew I didn’t want to make that mistake anymore..

Today I found out, to my horror, that deleting the htaccess file didn’t completely fix my problem, sure my blog was accessible again but all my links were broken! My page links as well as my posts links. None was working anymore, they all generated a 404-error. The links still referred to the pretty looking url but those didn’t exist anymore, did they?
When I checked out the permalinks settings in the admin panel, it still was on the pretty mode instead of the default and all my internal links were still ‘pretty’ but not working….

After hours of searching through the forums and repeatedly trying to change my permalinks setting back to default (getting into that same problem again, deleting the htaccess file…again), I had a hunch and decided to erase the content of the htaccess file rather than erasing the whole file. That at least fixed the 500-internal server error that popped up again. I then tried to put my permalinks setting back to default and it didn’t generate an error! So far so good. I went back to my front page to check my page and posts links, and they worked again! Yay! I then deleted the htaccess file all together and now all is working as it should again. So just deleting the rogue htaccess file isn’t necessarily the whole solution…