DreamHost Discussion Board

WordPress Installation Error

icmix — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:58:41 -0800

Hi,

I just set up a new site, believe I set the 3 nameservers properly on GoDaddy, and I tried the WordPress installation. I got this error on Firfeox and no info on IE7:

The page isn't redirecting properly
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

I don't think I installed it on my other account (Hostgator) so I can't think of a conflict.

Does anyone know what I must have done wrong? Thanks

Gmail--is it better?

goldylamont — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:42:08 -0800

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Hi, I have been thinking of migrating my email hosting from DreamHost to Gmail setup. The reasons I have for doing this are 1) Gmail in my experience is much faster at receiving emails than my dreamhost account; and 2) I've grown tired of the unreliable dreamhost email servers. It's true they work great most of the time but it's too often I have issues sending/receiving (such as the issue this morning).

I am a tech consultant so I'm OK with the process (although I know it's a lot of work to migrate an account). I'm just wondering what other users think about using the Gmail option and/or Google Apps in general with DreamHost. Is it worth the trouble to migrate? Thanks!

domain mirroring not working

allrytie — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:05:14 -0800

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Hi! I have 3 domains that I would like to mirror domain #1. The first one I setup works fine, but the 2nd one I asked to mirror domain #1 doesn't work - it gives me error id: "bad_httpd_conf" - I have it set up thru dreamhost the way the other one is and I can't find the problem. I just bought domain #4 and also want it to mirror #1, but I'm afraid I might have the same issue. Can someone help?

Thanks!

- Jill

tech-stumped

prettysullen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:27:53 -0800

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i know only basics. got an error id: "bad_httpd_conf" post and just CoNfusEd... Now, is it a prob with the IP? The IP is from dreamhost. My domain was bought elsewhere but the nameservers were changd. Just wonered... whats up with this?

Error in Postfix

trukulo — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:18:57 -0800

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I'm having this problem in postfix:

Nov 17 21:01:50 servo2 postfix/smtp[25043]: F1E0530BBDA: to=, relay=mail.lluche.com[208.97.132.223]:587, delay=2.9, delays=0.06/0/1.6/1.3, dsn=4.3.5, status=deferred (host mail.lluche.com[208.97.132.223] said: 451 4.3.5 Server configuration problem (in reply to RCPT TO command))

Always says connection refused.

My main.cf in postfix is:

--- BEGIN ---

# line of that file to be used as the name. The Debian default
# is /etc/mailname.
#myorigin = /etc/mailname

smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU)
biff = no

# appending .domain is the MUA's job.
append_dot_mydomain = no

# Uncomment the next line to generate "delayed mail" warnings
#delay_warning_time = 4h

readme_directory = no

# TLS parameters
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.crt
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.key
smtpd_use_tls = no
smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtpd_scache
smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtp_scache

# See /usr/share/doc/postfix/TLS_README.gz in the postfix-doc package for
# information on enabling SSL in the smtp client.

myhostname = servo2.lluch
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
myorigin = /etc/mailname
mydestination = servo2.lluch, localhost.example.com, localhost.localdomain, localhost
relayhost = [mail.lluche.com]:587
mynetworks = 172.17.0.0/16, 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128
mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION"
mailbox_size_limit = 0
recipient_delimiter = +
inet_interfaces = all
inet_protocols = all
smtp_tls_security_level = encrypt
smtp_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/ndn.ca.crt
smtpd_sasl_local_domain =
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_security_options =
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/smtp_pass
smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header = yes
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination
smtpd_tls_auth_only = no
smtp_use_tls = no
smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes
smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/ssl/cacert.pem
smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1
smtpd_tls_received_header = yes
smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s
tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom

--- END ---

My smtp_pass is

--- BEGIN ---
[mail.lluche.com]:587 inf@lluche.com:xxx
--- END ---

I read wiki, and i read everything i can. It just don't work.

May you help me?

Identifying awry processes

kgagne — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:37:06 -0800

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I have a PS on which I run multiple installations of WordPress. The memory usage (as determined by the line graphs on my admin panel's "Manage Resources" pane) is usually below 300 MB, but occasionally it spikes to 1500, bringing all my sites to a screeching halt. Even during such an occasion, my uptime is this:

06:34:21 up 17:34, 1 user, load average: 0.47, 0.87, 0.71

That doesn't seem accurate to me. Regardless, is there a way to determine what script is process is eating so much memory? If it's a single WP plugin gone awry, I'd like to know to disable it and prevent future such spikes.

A way to do an "Uptime" on the MySQL server?

wflanagan — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:43:19 -0800

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It would be nice to be able to tell the load on the MYSQL servers. But, I haven't so far figured out how to SSH into my server.

Any ideas anyone how to get a terminal prompt on the MYSQL servers?

Drupal on PS?

jassent — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:06:34 -0800

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Hello-

I get 500 errors when accessing the Modules administrative task in Drupal when running on a Private Server. I have notified and been in contact with tech support. They advised me to run the "top -c" diagnostics and to increase the server resources. This did not stop the errors. The site worked when not running on a Private Server.

Is anyone successfully running Drupal on a Private Server?

Any suggestions?

Jassen

Edited by jassent on 11/16/09 01:07 PM (server time).

rsync to hanjin insanely slow

n715dp — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:43:05 -0800

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anyone else having issues with connecting to the hanjin backup server? I'm trying to do an rsync backup of my files and it usually flies through (I'm on a 20/5 FIOS connection) and it's stalled out at less than 1KB/sec.

500 Internal Server Error or very slow result

Fixer — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:48:13 -0800

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Hi,

I have the next php script and, this always work very well (loading time before 1 second) but about two or three days to now, I get the 500 Internal Server Error or this simple function spend more than 20 seconds to load.

My dreamhost server is "Burke", I use mysqli to connect to the database.
In error.log I get: Premature end of script headers: menu.php...

Who can I put this working? Move to another webhost?
Please help me!!!

The php script is:
header("Content-Type: text/xml");

ini_set('display_errors','On');
ini_set('display_startup_errors','On');
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

// db properties to mysqli class
define ("DB_SERVER", 'mysql.domain.com');
define ("DB_NAME", 'db_name');
define ("DB_USER", 'db_user');
define ("DB_PASSWORD", 'db_pass');

include_once 'library/mysql.php'; // simple mysqli class

function getRows ($sql){
$data = false;

$myDB = new MySQL();
$myDB->Query($sql);

if ($myDB->TotalRows() > 0) {
while( $row = $myDB->FetchArray() ) {
$data[] = $row;
}
}

$myDB->Close();

return $data;
}

function mostraMenuXML($pid=0, $isMulti=false) {
if ( $isMulti )
$menu = getRows("SELECT id, titulo FROM artigos WHERE menuid = $pid ORDER BY ordem, data");
else
$menu = getRows("SELECT id, nome, publicado, tipo FROM menu WHERE parentid = $pid ORDER BY ordem");

if ( !$menu )
return "";

if ($pid==0 )
$xml = "\n\n";
else
$xml = "";

if ( $isMulti ) {
foreach ($menu as $item) {
$xml .= "\n
$xml .= "name=\"". stripslashes(html_entity_decode($item['titulo'], ENT_COMPAT, "UTF-8")) ."\" action=\"openPage\" m=\"".$pid."\" id=\"".$item['id']."\">";

$xml .= "\n";
}
} else {
foreach ($menu as $item){
$xml .= "\n switch ( $item['tipo'] ) {
case "GALLERY":
$accao = "";
$isMulti = true;
break;
case "MAIL":
$accao = "openMail";
break;
case "NEWS":
$accao = "openNews";
break;
default:
$accao = "openPage";
}

$xml .= "name=\"". $item['nome'] ."\" action=\"$accao\" m=\"".$item['id']."\" >";

if ( $item['id'] != $pid )
$xml .= mostraMenuXML($item['id'], $isMulti);

$xml .= "\n";
}
}

if ($pid==0 )
$xml .= "\n";

return $xml;
}

echo mostraMenuXML();
?>

ftp connect failed

jrosell — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:58:21 -0800

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I have an proftpd server where I connect from filezilla in our office.
I cannot connect to that specific ftp server when using ftp command ssh conection or ftp_connect php function from dreamhost .
I don't know what happens because it works when I try to connect from dreamhost to other ftp servers.
Any ideas?

Disk limits

fabian2ki — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:32:03 -0800

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Hello,

I have a full hosting account.

I can't find how to set the limit for each domain.

I hope somebody can help me.

Thanks in advance,
Fabian

Modify PHP Upload Limit

Yue_Hong — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:06:43 -0800

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Hi,

I want to increase the PHP upload limit for my site (www.fotobucks.com) and I have found a tutorial on wiki dreamhost (http://wiki.dreamhost.com/PHP.ini). Here I want to ask, what are the risk of modification if modification failed? Will it cost data lost?

I am new to this and it also is my first time doing it. I tried to do the modification using putty.exe. After I run the putty.exe, I keyed in 'fotobucks.com' at the host name field and set to port 80. When I clicked on open button, putty open a new window with black color in it. The problem is that I cannot type and do anything with that window. What should I do in order to proceed?

From what I read from the tutorial (although I am not fully understand it), here I want to ask:
1. Is it possible to do the modification by uploading all those files needed without using putty.exe?
2. Where and how can I get the dreamhost original php.ini? So that later I can change the setting to increase the upload limit.

I will be very appreciate if you can provide detail steps by steps in the way to do the modification. Thanks.

Web ID password won't change

deepblerg — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:46:45 -0800

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Hi,

I've tried changing my password a couple of times at https://panel.dreamhost.com/id/ but it does not actually change the password. I always have to login with my old password. Any ideas?

Thanks.

Juggling Domains

crompton — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:35:46 -0800

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I'm sure these things have been covered elsewhere but I haven't been able to find them.
I have purchased one domain and one hosting plan with Dreamhost. I want to split these things up and use the domain name for my Tumblr account then associate another domain name [purchased elsewhere] with my hosting package. Is this possible? If so what are the steps to accomplish it? Many thanks in advance to anyone who can help me with this...

Subdomain mapping

caseon3 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:09:48 -0800

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Hi,

We currently host on Dreamhost, and I had a question how to map a subdomain to a folder in the mail site.

I have subdomain.maindomain.com, and I want to link it to www.maindomain.com/folder. Someone told me that I can do this so that when they click the link to get to the folder (ie in the main navigation bar), it will redirect to the subdomain folder.

Ideally, I'd change the link in the main navbar, but this is a quick work-around until I can get my web guy back on the phone.

Is this possible? Help?

ioncube...yet again

j.b.dances — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:08:20 -0800

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i created a subdomain.
into the subdomain put a script locked by ioncube.
into the subdomain i put dh-phpion.php
that file "reads".
the install.php doesn't see it, and asks for ioncuve loader etc...
i put the dh-phpion.php into the subdomain figuring the install scriopt couldn't look "further uphill" into the domain to be told to get over itself and just run.
any help or instrux based on the premise that ur talking to an compleat idiot on code will be deeply appreciated.

This is getting really bad guys

MrVee — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:26:02 -0800

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I am having so much trouble getting to my website I can't hardly stand it. For the first time I am considering switching web hosts. I have several computers and several browsers on each and NONE can get to my website this morning. It loads and loads and loads until it quits. I've sent in tickets on this and they say the load time is great. But I don't know when they read the notes to check because by the time they do, it's great for me too. This morning it's not so great. And I'm annoyed about it. I've made NO changes to my message board or my website and for some reason it is NOT coming up. This sucks.

-

Still pending approval 4 days

bobosky — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:15:51 -0800

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I signed up my domain and hosting from DH in 11/09/2009, it has been 4 days, it still pending. I paid with my Credit card, does it take this long?
account #605062

Thanks.

At the end of my rope...

jtagen — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:56:19 -0800

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A question for the general community.... is Dreamhost going down the tubes, am I just extremely unlucky, or am I missing something?

I've been a DH customer for over 5 years, currently have several different accounts for businesses, turned on a huge number of people to a great service.

One of the sites I run is for the courses I teach. I'd problems (HTTP 500 Internal Server Error) every other page for almost three months. After a whole support debacle, finally got moved to a new server (twins). Things seemed to be better. Now I'm back to the same old, errors that disappear after a refresh.

It's finals week, I'm running a stable unmodified Moodle install, students are trying to submit their final projects right now and driving me crazy. I know I'm in a shared hosting environment, and I definitely don't expect five nines of uptime, but I'm losing patience. There seems to be regular "restructuring", but never any increase in availability. I have an open ticket now (3556196), and based on my experience someone will go to the site, refresh until it loads okay, and close the ticket with a reply that it "works for them".

Is it just me, my luck, or is the relationship over and it's time to shop around?

zip on php

parkandfly — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:32:19 -0800

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Could somebody help me out?

Thing is, CMS i am using requires zip module in php to be active, i wrote to support and they replied that it is possible, and even gave some wiki pages (which i didn't understood at all).

Maybe someone also had same problem/question before, and could advice me what should i do? (preferably step by step, but any advice will be very helpful)

thank you in advance!

redirect

�� — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:44:40 -0800

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Hello
How do I redirect a page to another one?

Creating new pages in Wordpress with no buttons

stanwelks — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:13:40 -0800

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I created a new page via Pages > Add New, though I do not want a button to appear in my main menu. How do I remove the button from my main menu after making a new page?

Thanks.

Wordpress: removing links on comment page?

stanwelks — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:06:14 -0800

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On my comment page it displays links in the upper left and right corner linking to the previous story and the next story. How can I remove these?

Thanks!!!

FTP Delays - OSX

kuonji — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:54:40 -0800

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Alright. This problem is driving me nuts.

Let me preface this by saying that this has only recently become a problem, and I've used FTP without issue for years now on Dreamhost.

Issue: Whenever I use a helper app to perform uploads to my ftp site, the process takes approximately a minute to complete the upload, regardless of the file size. It's like there is some sort of authentication or name resolution delay or something. Namely the 'Upload to FTP' automator action and more recently, an app called 'TinyGrab' that also uploads images to an ftp server.

IF I use a full-fledged ftp application such as Transmit or Cyberduck or whatnot, it is very snappy and uploads are fast, as they should be, but when I use one of the previous mentioned methods, there is at least a 60 second delay before it finishes up. I do believe this problem started appearing around the same time that my server was moved from vine to belmopan. I have tried using belmopan.dreamhost.com I have also used (mydomain).com. Both have the delay.

Is there anything I could try or does anyone know why there is this delay using apps such as this? This happens at work, and at home, on three different systems. Any advice VERY appreciated.

SubDomain problems

mabjustmab — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:27:41 -0800

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I'm having problems setting up a subdomain.

not sure what the source of this issue is.

mabjustmab.com works
wedji.mabjustmab.com does not. it redirects to http://wwwp.find-assist.com/

I was able to set up Wordpress using the one click install, but I am not able to access the site.

I am able to WEBftp in, but I cannot see the site live.

does anyone have any ideas what's wrong?

Thanks!

Issue with Disk Quota. Hemp please.

guido.segni — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:17:12 -0800

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Hi,
we got one domain on dreamhost.
On this site we cache most of our sql-based data on the file system.
We launch the site past week and since this morning whenever you go into the homepage you get these error:

Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Disk quota exceeded in /home/.seal/seppukoo/classes/class.cache.php on line 49
Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Disk quota exceeded in /home/.seal/seppukoo/classes/class.cache.php on line 49
Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/.seal/seppukoo/classes/class.cache.php on line 29
Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/.seal/seppukoo/classes/class.cache.php on line 32

it seems there's a problem with disk space but we're under the disq quota...
To cache the data we use a complex system of folder and subfolder...

Anyone knows why we get those errors?

All the best,
G.

Accessing subdomain directories that Im "hosting"?

thuan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:04:20 -0800

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Hi,

Basically, I'm hosting a domain for a friend (His domain name, my space). I want to be able to access his files (Which he's aware of). How do I grant myself access?

Thanks,

Thuan

Very slow backup server

EmmanuelCh — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:58:07 -0800

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Hello

The backup server backup.dreamhost.com is so slow that backuping becomed unusable. Do you have this problem to ?

thanks

apache ProxyPass

thepner@ — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:02:17 -0800

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I'd like to use apache's ProxyPass feature. Is there a way to do this with dreamhost?

Adding Media Files in Wordpress fails

norcal — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:11:40 -0800

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Since yesterday, I can't upload media files (images) within Wordpress anymore. When I write my post, and then use the built-in file uploader in Wordpress to upload an image, it complains with the following error message:

Unable to create directory /home/.furball/myusername/mydomain.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

The problem occurred right after my domain was moved to a new machine (addisababa), so I believe Wordpress is still looking to save it on furball, which I believe is the problem. Is there a way to tell Wordpress that the new path is /home/.addisababa/...? Or do you know any other solution? I upgraded Wordpress to the latest version thinking that would fix it, but it didn't.

Thanks for any help!

Domain Whois Record

yun4 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:52:26 -0800

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Just want make sure before I put this into the suggestion form. Does DreamHost have the option to keep the records private kinda like a service provided by privacyprotect.org?

There is no place like 127.0.0.1

.php page failing to load

dang — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:08:16 -0800

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Why would something like this happen. Without having made any changes to any files, today suddenly .php pages in a photo gallery in the site are not loading in the browser window but instead are being downloaded as a file. In Firefox for example I get this message:

You have chosen to open
which is a: application/x-http-php
from: http://mysite.org

What should Firefox do with this file?

I have other pages in the site, .php pages that are working just fine. Any ideas as to what is causing this and how to fix it?

Thank you.

Shell access to DreamHost from Windows?

maddaze — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:05:20 -0800

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I can't figure how to get shell access to my DreamHost account from Windows (XP SP3). I use FileZilla to ftp files, but would like to know how to run PHP programs directly at DreamHost.

Harvey

There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

mod_rewrite misbehaving?

moniker — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:01:29 -0800

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Hi,
I'm trying to redirect requests like http://my.domain/ as follows:

http://my.domain/ -> http://my.domain/sputnik.cgi?p=
http://my.domain/xx -> http://my.domain/sputnik.cgi?p=xx

I have .htaccess properly setup, but the rewrite rules are doing some funny things that I can't seem to match up with what the specification says. For example, it's mapping:

http://my.domain/ -> http://my.domain/sputnik.cgi?p=sputnik.cgi
http://my.domain/xx -> http://my.domain/sputnik.cgi?p=sputnik.cgi

Here's my .htaccess:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ sputnik.cgi?$1 [L]

From what I understand, ^(.*)$ will match the entire request and store it in $1. If so, then why does $1 always contain sptunik.cgi?

Redirect 301 for pages with blank spaces in names

Aldebaran — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:27:15 -0800

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Hi,
When I do a redesign, I normally use a .htaccess file with redirects like this:

redirect 301 /oldfile.html http://www.domainname.com/newfile.html

Normally this works fine, but the old file names have blank spaces in them. I can't just add the blank spaces to the .htaccess file, and I've tried replacing the blank spaces with percentsign20, but it's not working.

Has anyone been able to redirect filenames with blank spaces in them?

I'm hoping this is actually possible.