Fix Dreamhost Stats problem in Wordpress



Users who has installed Wordpress blog application on Dreamhost may noticed that they can’t access the Dreamhost stats page on their blog (sub)domain.

This is caused by the way Wordpress handle URL in its internal system. However you can fix this issue by adding a few lines in your Wordpress .htaccess file.

Code (apache)
  1.  
  2. RewriteEngine On
  3. RewriteBase /
  4. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(stats|failed_auth\.html)/?(.*)$ [NC]
  5. RewriteRule ^.*$ - [L]
  6.  

Make sure you put the lines before the Wordpress rewrite rule. Finally overwrite the .htaccess files on the server and the Dreamhost stats should be back working by now.

You can read the full text of the tutorial in Dreamhost Wiki page.

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Written by:
Design Dude
Posted on:
March 6, 2007 at 3:43 pm

This has not worked for me, unfortunately. Maybe there is a different problem with the latest release?

Using this .htaccess makes my site not work at all. I also tried the SSH solution they recommend but that didn’t work either. Aargh. I wonder if any of your other readers have this problem?

DD

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Jon Moffet
Posted on:
March 6, 2007 at 3:47 pm

Design Dude, have you tried adding the snippets before the Wordpress own Rewrite rules?

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Design Dude
Posted on:
March 7, 2007 at 10:41 pm

Hi Jon, yes I did it a couple of times, exactly as it is shown on the Wordpress Codex. No luck. I’m going to keep searching or maybe end up contacting Dreamhost. Will follow up if I figure it out.

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robert
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December 9, 2009 at 11:49 am

Thanks for the example. I was mucking about in my htaccess with mixed success. This is working nicely.