I'm having major issues with my local development version of a client's site.
I've been working on their blog section and began getting 404 errors when using the pagination links for categories, or posts by author.
After doing some research the most common solution seemed to be to go to WP Admin Area and reset the permalink settings. So I did that, and that is where the fun really began.
Now, none of the nav menu items work at all. If I click any of them I get a 404 error - although they don't render the 404.php file, just a generic page with "NOT FOUND The requested URL /Clients/blah-blah-blah/index.php was not found on this server."
Looking further into it the most recommended course of action is to amend the .htaccess file, which I have, but to no avail.
At present, the .htacess file has:
**ErrorDocument 404 /404.php
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /Clients/Bubs%20World%20Dev/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /Clients/Bubs%20World%20Dev/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress**
I've tried other solutions along the same lines but they don't seem to work.
If anyone has any ideas on this it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Don
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I am trying to redesign a website from a friend and it's chaotic as hell. Now I am stuck a bit.
The old domain it something like http://www.website.com/folder/
I am trying the get rid out of the "folder", so I changed the setting in the wordpress setting and the root in the web-provider. The whole website is working fine, also the Wordpress admin area. But if I'm trying to get into the "home" page, it won't load - or it is loading endlessly.
Do you have any idea how I could fix it?
Regards and thanks,
Natts
A piece often forgotten is the .htaccess file (found in the root of your WP install); I especially suspect it because you're going from a subfolder to no subfolder.
Back it up, then override it with the default WordPress values (or delete it and go to Settings -> Permalinks in WP Admin)
Default .htaccess:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
I am working on the site: http://cancerhope.com/
If you go to the home page it works but if you click on any of the links it doesn't. It did work before but I had a nameserver issue that I resolved last Friday. I have tried various permalink settings (default, postname, date, etc.) It is currently set to postname but none of the pages work and I am not getting any errors in my console. I have tried turning off the plugins to no avail.
Here is a page that shows up blank: http://cancerhope.com/consultation/
I have tried deactivating all the plugins and changing the theme to a standard WP theme. I have deleted the htaccess file and reset the permalinks to default as well as postname and other settings. I even deleted the htaccess file between these changes.
Current htaccess code is:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Nothing seems to work.
Strange thing is that the blog page works:
http://cancerhope.com/blog-2/
The actual article that we have there works to:
http://cancerhope.com/2015/08/welcome-to-cancerhope/
Any suggestions?
I have a weird issue with my permalinks in wordpress hosted on AWS.
When I navigate to the first post located at http://civicasoft.com/news/
In my browser it shows a nice permalink for the first post of: http://civicasoft.com/granicus-acquisition/
But when I copy and paste the url from my browser it gives me this ugly one: http://civicasoft.com/%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BCgranicus-acquisition/
Any ideas what is going on? Everything looks fine from the admin.. If I type in the nice looking url it says page not found.. I have to paste in the ugly one.
I am at my wits end. I have never had these issues with a wordpress install before.
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######END SwiftSecurity######
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Hey I figured out what the issue was. It turns out my client had copied the title of the press release from a PDF and that brought weird character encoding into Wordpress for some reason. I figured this out after numerous trial and error attempts including multiple attempts recreating the post.
So I have a link on my blog's menu. It's set up to go to a subdomain housing a forum (forum.secdefus). Another link on the menu is set up in exactly the same way and works fine.
However, this link shows as correctly in the bottom let hand corner of Chrome. When I click it, it takes me to http://secdefus.com/forum. (which obviously doesn't exist).
I'm led to believe this is an issue with the rewrite settings in my site's .htaccess, but I'm not sure how to rectify it. You can reproduce this by going to http://secdefus.com and clicking the "Forum" link.
Thanks.
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
I think this might be more of a webhosting problem. Probably your hoster automatically redirects subdomain.domain.tld to domain.tld/subdomain if the subdomain is not found.
Besides that I can reach your forum via www.forum.secdefus.com, so you might just want to fix the link in the blog menu.
I have a Wordpress site with permalinks set to /%category%/%postname%.html. When I visit to a non-existing page, let say, example.com/non-existing-post, Wordpress 301-redirects to homepage instead of showing the 404.php page, which is inside the theme's package. Below is the htaccess code;
AuthName "protect"
AuthUserFile "/home/sitename/.htpasswds/public_html/passwd"
suPHP_ConfigPath /home/sitename/public_html/
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
When I tried to disable custom permalink structures, it returns a error 404 but not with 404.php page that I preferred(normal Apache error, I guess).
There have been a lot of similar discussions about this "bug", please see the links below. All of them not seem to be resolved. :(
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-pages-not-working-1
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-pages-not-working
What's causing Wordpress automatically 301-redirect a page that is supposed to show 404 error?
UPDATE(Feb 21, 2013) - Problem's still persistent. I think it's a bug in the wordpress core that involves in "pretty permalinks" redirections.
Still I'd like to solve this problem since I've got a handful of Wordpress sites that have this and I think other people are experiencing the same bug in their sites.