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1. loginname
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   Hey

   WordPress 2.8.5

   After I've created a webpage I try to view it and I get the "The page cannot be found" error. I also get this error if I want to display the "About" page...

   What I do wrong?

2. alism
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   Post your site url.

   If you're using Permalinks, try saving back to the default structure, then back again.
   Admin > Settings > Permalinks

3. loginname
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   I notice that this error occur when I use this permalink sturcture:
   /%postname%/

   Any suggestions?

4. loginname
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   I switched it back to default permalink settings and back again, it didn't help

   I also recreated my pages after using permalink structure /%postname%/
   as I found I had to create the pages all over again.. Then when tested I got the same problem (The page cannot be found), so then I switch back to default permalink settings and I can see the page

   But I don't want to use the default permalink sturcture, as it's not very SEO...

   SO please, any suggestions are most welcome on how to solve this issue

5. alism
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   What's in your .htaccess?

6. loginname
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   Iassume the .htaccess should be in the directory where WP is installed... I did a search and no .htaccess file was found :(

   This is on IIS, WinXPpro (sp3) box, and yeah the url to the site is localhost (http://localhost/wp/)

7. alism
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   Ahh, that'll teach me to assume you're using apache. You won't have an .htaccess then and it's possible that you just won't be able to use Pretty Permalinks at all or without a bit of tweaking.

   Have a read of the IIS sections of this then:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

8. loginname
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   okay, I stick to the default permalink structure for now. I've learned how to set the permalink stucture.

   I'm just learn how to configure WP before I go about creating a real WP site...

   From this I've also learned that WP prefer to we hosted in a Apache environment (if I want to use /%postname%/ permalink structure) , right?

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