/month.php & /favorites not found on server

hey Derek!
I’ve got the same problem.
couldn´t fix it yet and there seems to be no help out there. :(

And I’ve got the same problem on my new installation of Tweet Nest too:
http://twitter.wesfryer.com

Looking at the files in the directory with my FTP client, it appears the mainentance script which is importing the last 3200 tweets isn’t actually creating any files in my webserver’s directory:
http://twitter.wesfryer.com/mainte…

That’s why there are 404 errors: A directory for “2012” and the month “04” inside it have not been created at all:
http://twitter.wesfryer.com/2012/04

I’m wondering if this is a server permissions issue, where the script is not being allowed to create those directories and files?

Andy we need your help! :-)

OK, I found this post and it looks like it might be the same .htaccess issue, b/c there are not actual directories being created by Tweet Nest:
http://pongsocket.com/forum/tweetn…

Haven’t found an answer yet tho…

I experimented adding a .htaccess file into the directory where I installed Tweet Nest, copying the same one I had in the root of my Wordpress install, but that didn’t work.

Stuck for now.

As you seem to have discovered already, Tweet Nest doesn’t actually create folders in any way — the special URLs that look like a folder structure are put in place so the paths look more human readable.

This is what the .htaccess files help with in an Apache installation. Without them correctly installed, the server will actually try to look for that folder and, naturally, cry when it doesn’t find it. So this issue is usually due to these .htaccess files either being not present, not read or otherwise interfered with in some way.

The issue is complicated by the fact that the files are usually hidden on a UNIX-based system, so it can be hard to see if they are present. Then you need to make sure they are read and interpreted (see the “AllowOverride” directive in Apache config) and that the rules don’t clash with other similar files somehow (this is mostly trial and error).

I’ve heard that if you run Tweet Nest in a subdirectory of WordPress, the different .htaccess files for these two different apps collide in some way and create an issue. I haven’t been able to resolve this, though, because I don’t use WordPress myself. But it could be an idea to move it into a completely separate directory to see if that helps.

Do you know what an .htaccess file needs to include so it will work properly? I successfully uploaded a file and renamed it with the ‘.’ prefix but I don’t think it included the requisite code. I used a generic version I found online. If you or anyone else can provide a sample file to use I’ll give that a try. I loaded Twitter Nest in a new directory as an ‘add on slot’ on my hosting account, rather than a subdirectory.

OK, I got it working but I feel foolish! All I needed to do was rename the provided htaccess file you provided in the install files. Yikes! I guess I need to look at filenames more carefully. THANKS! Tweet Nest rocks. :-)

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I had the same problem, I had to fix it by editing httpd.conf

In httpd.conf:

I changed this:
AllowOverride None

to this:
AllowOverride Options FileInfo

From info found here:

http://www.blackbeagle.com/web-hos…