permalink updated error on page. not found.

I have the same error on http://www.grydladzieci.net and I don’t know why, I have a lot of wordpress sites that are going correctly: http://www.matteoraggi.com

I am interested but do not find an .htaccess anywhere. If I create one, which folder should it be in?

I had a similar problem and discovered that the rewrite_rules from the original permalink structure get stored in the database and don’t get updated when you change to the new permalink structure. If you find that record in the database and blank it out it will then create the proper rules and work just fine.

I think the code needs to be fixed to do that whenever the permalink structure is changed.

In the interest of getting the best response possible to my situation, I have my blog hosted on my ISP which had me place the .htaccess file in the main website directory rather than the blog subdirectory, for security reasons. (I don’t know the explanation, but it involved a cgi file as well, I just followed their suggestions.) Anyway, all was running fine in the last version of wp.

After upgrading to 2.0 (following all the back up instructions, etc.) I decided to change the permalink option from the default structure to the one that organizes them by year, month, and day.

Now when I try to access a month’s worth of archives, I get the following:

>The requested URL /gcblog/2005/10/ was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.<

No one can post comments either, or they’ll get a similar message:

>The requested URL /gcblog/2006/01/07/bloggers-lament/ was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.<

I have also found that wp creates an .htaccess file in the main blog directory after I do something like try to change the permalink structure back to where it used to be, or to go into the comments while logged in. Then the site is totally down, and I get a message like the following:

>Warning: main(/nfs/www/WWW_pages/annehill/gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/wp-config.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /nfs/www/WWW_pages/annehill/gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/wp-blog-header.php on line 12<

Can someone please tell me something to try that might get things working again?

Thanks very much.

All you would ever want to know about permalinks should be found here http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
However with WP 2.0 you shouldn’t have to write anything at all by hand, just make sure .htaccess is writable by the web server.

Under “Fixing (.htacess ) Generation issues” it says:

“Your host might have blocked the SERVER_SOFTWARE variable and this will cause WordPress’ .htaccess generation to fail.”

@ccf: Good, I’m happy to hear that!
@all: There should be no information about the permalink structure in the database.

Well annehill, I was too fast; There’s alway more to know 🙂