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1. canchuckwood
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   Hi folks

   I'm having trouble with Google's 'Oops this link appears to be broken' error message. I'm presuming it has something to do with permalinks and htaccess.

   The website is cheapcontacts.co.nz (username: admin / password: eyesee123). When the permalinks are the default structure, I can access the pages eg. FAQ, contact, but not the WP ECommerce groups and products. When I try pretty permalinks, I can't go anywhere beyond the home page.

   I discovered Wordpress hadn't generated a .htaccess file on installation, so I created one and added the following:

   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
   </IfModule>

   but that hasn't helped.

   Any ideas? Help is much appreciated.

   Thanks, Charlette

2. jceresini
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   You may need to verify that your web server both supports rewrite rules, and it setup to allow them for your virtualhost and directory. Your host should be able to help determine this. One quick and dirty way to find out is to put gibberish into the .htaccess file, just random characters like "asdf" at the top of it. If the web server supports it, then it will fail to parse the file and display an error when you try to visit the website.

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