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1. positivexposure
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I made http://www.positivexposure.com last year, and I changed the permalinks with no problems, I don't remember having to even do anything.
   I made http://www.positivexposure.com/blogs/personsnamehere (theyve all been deleted, though) and also changed them with no problem.

   I'm trying to make http://www.positivexposure.com/australia (it's up) and i have been having trouble with the permalinks.
   There was a 500 error on the entire site when I changed it, so I went to the web.config file and it wouldn't let me change permissions so I edited it and took out the italic part.

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <configuration>
     <system.webServer>
       <rewrite>
         <rules>
          <em> <rule name="wordpress" patternSyntax="Wildcard">
             <match url="*"/>
             <conditions>
               <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true"/>
               <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true"/>
             </conditions>
             <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php"/>
           </rule></em>
         </rules>
       </rewrite>
     </system.webServer>
   </configuration>

   doing that brought the main page of the site back, but clicking any pages or posts brought "page not found." So after a ton of reading here, I added "index.php" into the custom structure and it works.

   Luckily at least I can see everything now, but, I really dont want the index.php part there....

   I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing with coding or anything, which is why I'm using WordPress (through GoDaddy)....so i need directions a Kindergartener could understand.

2. positivexposure
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   No one has a suggestion??

3. Shane G.
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi,

   Reset your desired permalink and add this code in htaccess:

   # BEGIN WordPress
   
   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
   </IfModule>
   
   # END WordPress

   After that have a check with blog posts and pages. Also make sure that you have correctly changed the site URL. However, for that refer this article:

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

   Thanks,

   Shane G.

4. positivexposure
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I don't see an .htaccess file and there's no way to view hidden files, so I created a file with that name and I put that in the file, and nothing changed, it just said page not found.

   However, why would I have to change my site URL? http://www.positivexposure.com/australia is the URL I want and the URL it's at.

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