Wordpress permalinks with Greek/Russian/Arabic characters

WordPress permalinks with Greek/Russian/Arabic characters

Posted by kanenas.net on 31/01/2011 Leave a comment (10) Go to comments

Server Settings
OS: Linux
HTTP Server: Apache2
Database: MySQL (utf-8)
Scripting Language: php 5
Software: wordpress 3.0.4 - wp-confing.php

define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');

Create an .htaccess file in your root directory ( e.g www.example.com/ )

vi .htaccess #(you may have to sudo or su)

Add the following lines in the file .htaccess file…

# Disable Directory Browsing
Options All -Indexes

# Secure access to .htaccess files
<Files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>

Save the file and exit vi (:wq).
You may have to give full access rights to .htaccess!?

chmod 777 .htaccess #(you may have to sudo or su)

Open your favorite browser, go to your www.example.com/wp-admin section then choose

Settings -> Permalinks

and apply your custom structure…

( e.g /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ )

Save Changes

IMPORTANT
Remove the full access rights from .htaccess!

chmod 644 .htaccess #(you may have to sudo or su)

You are done! Enjoy your wordpress custom permalinks in your preffered language.

I have test it with greek, russian and arabic and worked as a charm!
See an example…
http://www.my-soul.net/blog/

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10 Comments.

Cecelia 01/02/2011 at 20:39

Reached your blog post through Delicious. You already know I will be subscribing to your feed.

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Mohamed Tair 23/03/2011 at 02:17

Thanks man ..
i had a problem that Arabic character links did not work ^^

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- kanenas.net 23/03/2011 at 20:50
  
  I am glad I could help
  
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tlacatlaolli 05/04/2011 at 19:57

It works like a charm for posts, but strangely not for pages! To be precise, pages with Greek character urls work without the final / but do not work with an / at the end.
A solution to this would be appreciated.

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- kanenas.net 06/04/2011 at 16:02
  
  Have a look here…
  http://www.my-soul.net/blog/
  and escpecially this one (page)
  http://www.my-soul.net/blog/από-άγχος-χαρακτηριστικών/
  or this…
  http://www.my-soul.net/blog/από-άγχος-χαρακτηριστικών
  which is the same as you can see and works with or without the final / .
  Nevertheless, I will look into it more thoroughly later and I will let you know
  
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Bokac 05/10/2011 at 03:03

Does not work for me on WordPres 3.2.1 and getting errors if I set define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf-8′); instead define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);

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- kanenas.net 05/10/2011 at 22:02
  Bokac you are right about the…
```
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf-8');
```
  The correct is…
```
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
```
  I have corrected in my post and I am sorry for the inconvenience!
  Reply
Kiki 12/10/2011 at 09:20

When I try to view your site in IE, both pages and posts, the greek/arabic/russian charachers dont show up, instead I get the usual (http://www.my-soul.net/blog/2011/01/%d0%b8%d1%85-%d0%b4%d0%b2%d0%b5-%d0%b2%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%bc%d0%b5%d0%bd%d0%b8-%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%be%d0%b3%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%bc%d0%bc/)
I don’t have this problem in Firefox. Any ideas why that is?

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- kanenas.net 12/10/2011 at 20:39
  
  I have test it with Firefox, Opera, Chrome (browsers that I use mostly and it works fine…) but I didn’t test it with IE! The most strange thing is that if you have a look in this post http://www.loukoulos.com/2011/06/ντομάτες-γεμιστές-με-φρέσκα-λαχανικά/ (with IE9) inside the content of the post IT WORKS ?!?!
  
  I will have a look into it more closely to see what is going on…
  
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Kiki 14/10/2011 at 10:02

Thanks, I appreciate this. By the way in IE8 doesn’t work.

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