No idea. What did you change?
[BTW, MY wordpress installs (20 at last count, mine and clients) work PERFECTLY – and have since day one.]
I have the full URLs set to be /year/name-of-blog
What’s that mean? Which admin page did you make this change — and why? Are we talking Permalinks?
I don’t know, it used to work, no longer works…haven’t checked for a while. Why should it just stop working? I haven’t messed with my settings for a long time.
Yes, that’s what I meant–permalinks.
So when you visited Options -> Permalinks and tried setting them to default, what happened?
There’s a lot of troubleshooting information at the Permalinks page. But if stuff used to work and magically stopped working without your intervention, you’d probably want to check with your host first.
Options -> Permalinks -> Custom
Set to this:
/%year%/%postname%
So when you visited Options -> Permalinks and tried setting them to default, what happened? After of course setting your .htaccess file to 777 so it could be written to…. and have you checked with your host to see if they did anything?
And I thought this was a fairly new blog – like just in the last few days, from other posts herein…. did you upgrade to 2.0.5?
Sorry, posted before I saw your post.
I didn’t set them to default. I don’t want them at default. I want /year/postname… :/ Probably happened when I switched hosts..although I was sure I’d checked since then, guess I must not have. I don’t have a .htaccess. I’ll try putting one in.
Checking them at default is to find out how and if they’re working at all.
So what you did was change hosts? Well, then, you need to find out some basic info about the way the current host has things set up.
You can’t just come here, throw out a few useless questions, and expect anyone who volunteers here to magically wave a wand and fix your problems.
This’ll sound zany… but when we suggest trying something, we don’t do it just to waste your time. We honestly want to zoom in on an issue.
So you moved hosts? Is that something that happened before “did work” and “didn’t work”? Seems like it would’ve been useful to mention before this point!
Since you moved hosts, have you visited Options -> Permalinks and just saved what’s already there so that a proper .htaccess file will be built? As you’ve noticed, pretty permalinks don’t work without one.
Nope. Didn’t work. I do have a .htaccess now though.
Confirm with your host that mod_rewrite and AllowOverride are on and enabled (other troubleshooting topics at the Permalinks page, but that’s where you want to start since you changed hosts.)
vkaryl, sorry for not explaining myself. I didn’t change hosts. I just moved my files to a new account with the same host, using the same database (which I got updated), etc.
Sorry HandySolo, I misunderstood what you were asking. I’ll try that now.
The major gap in communication here has been that I have posted a couple times before seeing the most recent post.
It works now, it must have been the .htaccess and the fact that I had it at 666, not 777. Sorry about that,
thank you a ton for the help and I don’t mean to sound ungrateful. I’m just frustrated 🙁
Okay. When the host moved files etc. was it to a different server? Hosts generally have more than one, and sometimes the specs are different from one to another. So that’s really the first thing to look at: is the space you’re on now set up the same as the space you were on before? If the answer is yes, then we can go on from there.
[Edit – well, glad you got it working. In general, the .htaccess will HAVE to be 777 in order to be written to. But do yourself a HUGE favor – now that permalinks are working, set that sucker back to 644…. PLEASE.]
Well, I’m not sure whether it was a new server or not. I use NearlyFreeSpeech, and you set up “sites” within your main account. I’ve got like 15 different sites on the same account..and they can all point to the same MySQL database. As far as space, they don’t limit you like most hosts, you just put in money and it takes it out based on how much you used ($1/gigabyte-day storage, $1/gigabyte transfer)
I’ll set it back to 644, but why might I ask?
