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  • Got a really strange problem with my permalinks. Yesterday they suddenly stopped working, now all my pages like http://www.domain.com/about/ etc. gives me a 404 error.

    My permalink structure is set to %postname%

    htaccess is setup properly, and I even installed a new blog in a subdirectory to make sure it wasn’t a server issue.

    If i revert back to default permalink setting the site works ok but that is not the best option in this case as we got a lot of deep links.

    One of the things I tried yesterday was changing permalink structure to one of the other default settings /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/
    and now my pages was working again, but was a few problems with the webshop so I installed the “Top Level Categories” plugin which only made things worse, I then deactivated the plugin and deleted it.
    Now /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ wont work either, it also gives me a 404 on all pages.

    I also tried the “Permalink Fix & Disable Canonical Redirects Pack” plugin but then everything just redirected to the home page.

    I noticed that during the week when I logged in to my dashboard it said something about “to many redirects” warning but it still worked back then.

    Any ideas how I can fix this?

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  • try renaming .htaccess file and then reset your permalinks so you have fresh new .htaccess file.

    Thread Starter zarkas

    (@zarkas)

    Thanks for reply, but no luck, also tried that a few times, even various permissions on the htaccess file.

    Thread Starter zarkas

    (@zarkas)

    Update:

    Got it working by installing a really old version of rewrite.php which pretty much made a whole mess of the site. Then upload the latest version of rewrite.php in the wp-include directory and now everything works as it should..
    doesn’t make much sense but glad its finally working.

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