Unable to change Permalink - Tried tons of tricks - wordpress

I am using wordpress on godaddy windows hosting. using 4,7,4 version of wordpress.
For some reason permalinks do not work in any mode except of plain, selecting any other structure results in 404 errors at all pages except of home. I know there is a ton of similar questions, but none of the existing solutions does not help (at least all solutions I could find).
.htaccess file is changing when permalink structure is modified, it adds a code that looks as it supposed to be:
# 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
Giving different permissions doesn’t do anything.
According to the hosting provider the web server meets all requirements
The website is using woocommerce. Disabling all plugins was tried as well – no effect.
Any other ideas how can I fix this or at least where the problem is? Thanks in advance

You may need to enable mod_rewrite to accept the server to access the formatted URL's
Edit , httpd.conf
AllowOverride all
Also inside php.ini remove ; from the below extension,
extension=php_curl.dll

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Recieving a 404 error when trying to open posts after permalink change to /%pagename%/

I’ve changed my custom permalink setting to /%pagename%/ (which is common, I guess). However, the following problem keeps occurring:
When trying to open a post on my website, I receive a 404 error. When changing the permalink setting back to Standard, the errors disappear.
After googling, I found that there is a way to solve this by editing your .htaccess file. Even after this, the same problem reoccurs. As I would like to have clean page-names, would anyone know how to solve this problem?
Greetings,
Tom
Kindly delete your .htaccess file from the root folder and check your site again, if the problem is still there than regenerate the permalinks using %postname%.
For the url rewriting WP feature to work, WP writes the .htaccess file at the root of your WP installation.
Open the .htaccess file and check whether or not you have this piece of code:
# 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
If it is missing, you have 2 options:
change the file permissions so that WP can write it.
or add the missing code yourself to the .htaccess.

Setting .htaccess for Wordpress in a subdirectory with 'Post name' permalinks

I am trying to set up a Wordpress installation, where Wordpress is in a subdirectory, but where the subdirectory is always rewritten out of the URL.
I've been trying to follow a whole bunch of other questions / posts about doing this, but no one else's solutions seem to work for me, and a lot of the time they just get the pages to load, without removing the subdirectory from the URL, which is crucial for me.
I'm also hoping for a solution that will work the same locally (http://localhost/wordpress) as it will on a live server (http://example-site.com). However, I'll explain the problem from a local point of view:
My root folder is structured like this:
.htaccess
wp /* contains all wordpress core files */
wp-content /* custom wp-content folder, which is set to be pointed at in my wp-config */
wp-config.php
So, if we ignore the .htaccess, the site would be accessed by going to http://localhost/wordpress/wp, and the goal is to access it by just going to http://localhost/wordpress.
This was achieved using this .htaccess:
RedirectMatch 302 /wp/$ /wordpress/$1
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ wp/$1
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ wp/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
However, at this point, my wordpress installation was set to use default permalinks, which create pages like http://localhost/wordpress?p=12. I need to set this to a different permalink type, which uses URL segments rather than query parameters, like http://localhost/wordpress/hello-world. Once that setting is changed, I can no longer access other pages with that .htaccess (the home page still works fine though)
I tried using this .htaccess:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ -
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wordpress/wp/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
Which now causes the sub pages to load, though the home page no longer does, nor do some asset files, like http://localhost/wordpress/wp-includes/css/admin-bar.min.css
I can't seem to find a solution that makes everything work at the same time!
I'd also like to mention that I have a very small understanding of writing .htaccess files, so if anyone is going to answer this, please explain things like I am an idiot, as I may not understand you otherwise.
I am considering that you have redirected the domain to the relavant folder, or on shared hosting you have setup the domain to point to your subfolder. I am also considering that you are adding the htaccess to the root. Here is code from the official codex for your situation.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?YourDomain.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ blog [L]
Replace yourdomain.com and blog with website address and directory. Delete everything else from the file. Then goto settings > permalink and change the permalink to what ever you want.

Wordpress htaccess not a directory rule keep firing anyway

I have a strange problem with a site i installed on my server, the same exact code works elsewhere so i'm stuck here trying to figure out what is not working.
# 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
This is the standard Wordpress htaccess. Technically, the "!-d" rule should allow me to list or access any directory but in this install, it's not the case.
I have a "admin" folder and wordpress keeps kicking in and handling the admin url as "wp-admin" but thats not what i want. I already have other servers where i have a custom "admin" folder mixed with wordpress and it launches fine but something strange here seems to be hapenning.
What we have done:
Disable the rewrite engine, wordpress turns off the folder responds
Disable/Reenable the rewrite engine (to flush possible existing rules) nope
Tried to add "RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/admin", doesn't work, WP still kicks in
Can you guys suggest anything else?
After some testing we found out that wordpress was catching all error messages even the 401 on our server. It kept showing 404 because thats the only rendered error by Wordpress.
To this end, we just put a
RewriteEngine Off
In the folder we were trying to access and blam! all of it works now!
I hope this can help others!

Wordpress .htaccess file - code being added after #END Wordpress line

My .htaccess file for WordPress keeps adding code to look like this:
# 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
AME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
I don't need any code after the first "# END WordPress"
I don't know what is changing it and I just updated WordPress to version 3.5 to try and fix the issue but it is still there :/ Anybody have this issue or know how to fix it?
2/5/2013 EDIT: I updated WordPress, my Theme (AIT's Guesthouse), and WPML plugins and the issue seems to have disappeared. I'm still not sure which thing was causing it.
If anyone is still searching for this answer I had to do some research recently to solve the problem myself.
As it turns out WordPress can update your .htaccess whenever you modify your permalinks. I was experiencing the issue however based on a few stray plug-ins I attempted to update. I set the .htaccess file the way I wanted it and blocked any changes to the file by setting permissions to 644. You can also do 444 if that isn't strict enough for you. I do SSH but Filezilla or a similar FTP/SFTP program will work.
Also as a tip for the proactive, try maintaining your site with version control (I use Git through BitBucket) and you can have logs that will tell you when and what WordPress changes. Incredibly useful!

Wordpress Load - Issue with Rewrite rules?

I have begun to have some issues over the past week with the site not loading or not loading properly (mainly in Chrome and Firefox), as well as a time when the permalink structure reset to the WordPress default, and a couple of times when I've been logged out of the WordPress back-end when making edits.
My web host said that it it was most likely an error with a mis-configured re-write rule in the .htaccess file. I can't see anything wrong (but am not sure whether I would know if I saw it...)
The only times I find rewrite mentioned in htaccess are pasted below.
Do you think this is what the problem is, or something else?
Thanks
# BEGIN W3TC Skip 404 error handling by WordPress for static files
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(robots\.txt|sitemap(_index)?\.xml(\.gz)?|[a-z0-9_\-]+-sitemap([0-9]+)?\.xml(\.gz)?)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} \.(css|js|htc|html|htm|rtf|rtx|svg|svgz|txt|xsd|xsl|xml|asf|asx|wax|wmv|wmx|avi|bmp|class|divx|doc|docx|eot|exe|gif|gz|gzip|ico|jpg|jpeg|jpe|mdb|mid|midi|mov|qt|mp3|m4a|mp4|m4v|mpeg|mpg|mpe|mpp|otf|odb|odc|odf|odg|odp|ods|odt|ogg|pdf|png|pot|pps|ppt|pptx|ra|ram|svg|svgz|swf|tar|tif|tiff|ttf|ttc|wav|wma|wri|xla|xls|xlsx|xlt|xlw|zip)$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [L]
</IfModule>
# END W3TC Skip 404 error handling by WordPress for static files
# 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
The admin url for wordpress isn't based on Rewrite rules. If you're being randomly logged out while making edits either the session has been removed or has timed out.
As for permalink structure resetting, it would likely be one of:
You or someone else with admin access has told wordpress to do so (intentionally or otherwise
The .htaccess file in your base wordpress folder has been deleted
The apache conf has been modified to ignore local htaccess / mod_rewrite rules
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by not loading properly, but if it were a htaccess problem I would think it would either work, or it wouldn't. Nothing in between.
I have begun to have some issues over the past week with the site not
loading or not loading properly (mainly in Chrome and Firefox), as
well as a time when the permalink structure reset to the WordPress
default, and a couple of times when I've been logged out of the
WordPress back-end when making edits.
This sounds like a session timeout/cookie problem, and very unlikely related to your .htaccess rules.
In addition to firewall/proxies that may be in the middle of your browser and the server, such things can be caused by clock skews; try checking the time on your server and on your computer.
[1]Clear you web cache.
If that doesn't help:
[2]Reset the htaccess file for your site. Reset the permalink settings.
If that doesn't help:
[3]Have you updated any plugins lately? Think about any changes that have been made recently to the backend of the site.
Hope this gives you some ideas.

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