Althought mod_rewrite works -> 404-errors

I am having this problem as well on a test installation of 1.5.1. I hesitate to upgrade my live install of 1.5 to 1.5.1 for this reason. (my test install is a clean/new install)

I’m using /%category%/%postname%/

Do you need my .htaccess contents too?

D’oh! I didn’t realize my host was using a previous version of Apache. Thank you macmanx!

Hi,

I am also having 404 problems. Mod_rewrite is installed on my server, and I can see the static paths being generated as per the browser status bar, but when I click on them, I get the 404 Not Found error. I took the rules generated by WordPress and pasted them into my .htaccess file. The permissions are 666 on .htaccess. I’m using WordPress 1.5.1.2. My Apache version is 2.0.46 with PHP 4.3.2.

Like I saw in a previous thread, I would also prefer not to have “/index.php/” in my rewritten URL.

My WordPress blog is at http://www.plasmahdtvtoday.com/blog . The rewrite syntax I am using is: /%post_id%/%postname%/

Any ideas? Thanks a bunch!

Regards,
Jim

P.S. Below is the contents of my .htaccess file:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ – [S=40]
RewriteRule ^feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?&feed=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?&feed=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?&paged=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^comments/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?&feed=$1&withcomments=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^comments/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?&feed=$1&withcomments=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^comments/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?&paged=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^search/(.+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?s=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^search/(.+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?s=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^search/(.+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?s=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^search/(.+)/?$ /blog/index.php?s=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?category_name=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)/?$ /blog/index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^author/([^/]+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^author/([^/]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^author/([^/]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?author_name=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^author/([^/]+)/?$ /blog/index.php?author_name=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^date/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&feed=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^date/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&feed=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^date/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&paged=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^date/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^date/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&feed=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^date/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&feed=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^date/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&paged=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^date/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^date/([0-9]{4})/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^date/([0-9]{4})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^date/([0-9]{4})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^date/([0-9]{4})/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/([^/]+)/trackback/?$ /blog/index.php?p=$1&name=$2&tb=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/([^/]+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?p=$1&name=$2&feed=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/([^/]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?p=$1&name=$2&feed=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/([^/]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?p=$1&name=$2&paged=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/([^/]+)(/[0-9]+)?/?$ /blog/index.php?p=$1&name=$2&page=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/trackback/?$ /blog/index.php?p=$1&tb=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?p=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?p=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?p=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)(/[0-9]+)?/?$ /blog/index.php?p=$1&page=$2 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

I’m having a related problem. My installation did not include an .htaccess file, and pages I created first worked, then didn’t. So I searched until I finally learned to create my own, which I did. Then the pages I had created worked again.

I created two new pages, and can’t load them(Not Found). So I created a new htaccess file, erasing the old. Same thing. It’s inside the WP root, one down from site root. It is much longer than jimhood’s, above, I don’t want to add it here.

So I copied jimhood’s and put that into the site root folder. Same thing.

I’m using permalinks

/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

I have WP 1.5.2, am a newbie, my site is http://www.agitatedamerican.com/blog. I use bbedit, can set permissions to read, write and execute for owner, group and everyone. So far only read for group and everyone, all three for owner.

Is there something here that is why the two new pages do not open, but the others do? Do I need to set permissions for everyone??? (very dangerous, I assume).

Thanks for any help on this I can get.

Okay, that worked! My problem is, my FTP is bbedit, which does not allow entering any number (666). I simply set all permissions to “write”, changed the Permalink file, then went back and took the write permissions off. This might help someone else who has this problem.

Thanks again!

If you are using Apache 1.3 and want to use %category% in your permalink (along with having working category and search feeds) you can use the plugin I made. It’s been working really well in a lot of different situations now. The only thing is that, for some reason that I have yet to work out, you can’t have both numeric items (like %year%, %postid%, etc) and %category% in your permalinks at the same time.