Links to pages and categories not working

  • bnita

    (@bnita)


    17 years, 5 months ago

    Hi y’all —

    I am trying to get http://www.richardferri.com to work correctly. The front page shows all of the posts, but when I click on the pages and categories links in the navigation, they do not go to the pages or posts.

    I am thinking that this may be a permalink and .htaccess issue but I am not sure. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

    (ps — I did not do the install of wp on the server, nor connect it to the db. I am trying to fix it after several hands have worked on it.)

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  • Chris_K

    (@handysolo)

    17 years, 5 months ago

    At the moment, that link is to a blank page…

    But just in case:
    Your Permalinks may be broke. Check that page for troubleshooting tips.

    In particular, confirm with your host that mod_rewrite and AllowOverride are both on and enabled.

    Thread Starter bnita

    (@bnita)

    17 years, 5 months ago

    If you would, please try it again. I have been playing with switching themes and seeing if I can’t figure out why my new theme that I have created is not working.

    And, yes, I am currently reading the Permalinks page, the Themes page, the Changing File Permissions page, and the Admin panels page. I don’t feel like I am getting where I want go, though….

    Chris_K

    (@handysolo)

    17 years, 5 months ago

    At first blush, I’ll stick with my original post. 🙂

    If you visit Options -> Permalinks and choose “Default”, do the links start working?

    Thread Starter bnita

    (@bnita)

    17 years, 5 months ago

    I’ll try and let you know….

    I changed it and got this message:
    You should update your .htaccess now.

    However, there is no .htaccess file on the server at the moment. As said before, I did not do the original install of wp, so I don’t know what happened to the file. I was reading the documentation to figure out how to make another one…

    Do I need to create and update the .htaccess file before the new permalink structure will take?

    Thread Starter bnita

    (@bnita)

    17 years, 5 months ago

    Sweet! The links now work! Yay!!!

    Now back to the theme problem…

    beardedbaby

    (@beardedbaby)

    16 years, 10 months ago

    I’m having the same problem. I’ve worked with WP a lot, and I have a basic understanding of how the permalink settings function — but I may be missing something.

    When I have the permalink settings on default, the links are structured like this:
    root/page_id=N
    That is turning up a ‘Not Found’ error. When I manually enter ‘index.php?’ before the page_id, it works, and I can find the page at
    root/index.php?page_id=N

    If I adjust the permalink settings, I get the same behavior. Thus links formatted as root/%category%/%postname%/ can be found at
    root/index.php?%category%/%postname%/

    This applies to all links generated by WordPress apart from the index link. My permissions on .htaccess are set at 666, and I have verified that WordPress is succeful at writing to .hataccess. I have several other WP sites with this host, and none of them have this problem — all of them worked right out of the box.

    Can anybody help me with this? Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

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