The dreaded Permalinks issue haunting me

  • ipkonfig

    (@ipkonfig)


    12 years, 5 months ago

    Hi folks,

    Well I have been spending days and days on end to resolve this problem but nothing seems to be helping….at all.

    When I click on “Settings” then “Permalinks” I get the dreaded “404” page (actually shows my page as I have the site setup to at least show something to visitors)

    The last time I was able to access this feature within the Admin page I had put it back to “Default”, so my links are the famous /?p=XXXX URLS. I’m trying to change it to links that Google will find more friendly —- buuuuut I can’t.

    I have tried this:
    (.htaccess in wp main folder)

    # BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

    I have re-installed Apache on the server (enabling mod_rewrite.c).

    I have cleared out all .htaccess files and re-created them, too.

    I have gone through and disabled every plugin, still I’m not able to gain access to Settings/Permalinks within the WP-Admin.

    I don’t know what caused the menu item within the admin panel to just stop working, and I don’t know how to get it back to working.

    Great need of help here, thanks.

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  • Thread Starter ipkonfig

    (@ipkonfig)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    I have gone into the wp db and added /%postname% to get the ‘pretty’ URLs back, but I still can not get that Permalinks to work from the admin menu. (if I try /%year%/%postname% in the db–the links no longer work on the site)

    Something is really going on here that has really messed things up bad.

    *shakes fist* Damn you WordPress!

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Have you tried:

    – deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

    – switching to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.

    – resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

    – re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folders from a fresh download of WordPress.

    Thread Starter ipkonfig

    (@ipkonfig)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Hi esmi,

    I’ve done all of those early yesterday, still “/wp-admin/options-permalink.php” (page not found)

    File is there, nothing has touched it.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Try resetting your custom permalinks back to the default setting via Settings -> Permalinks and deleting your .htaccess file.

    Thread Starter ipkonfig

    (@ipkonfig)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Esmi,

    That’s the problem: “Settings>>Permalinks=404 Error” I’m unable to even get the page to come up in wp-admin

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