Check with your hosts that mod_rewrite is running on your server.
Thread Starter
JenRus
(@jenrus)
Ok, I have checked with the host and they added the following:
# 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
However, it’s still not working. The option for ‘post name’ or to have pretty permalinks is still showing an error. Any thoughts?
Ex:
Not Found
The requested URL /auction-calendar/ was not found on this server.
It looks like you need to flush the permalinks. Normally just visiting the Permalink settings page and Saving will be enough, but you’ve tried that so more work is needed.
If you have a custom theme, switch to the default theme Twenty Fourteen. Re-save the permalinks as post name. If this doesn’t remove the error, proceed to the next step.
Deactivate all plugins and re-save the permalinks. Hopefully there will be no error. Now that we know that your theme is fine, and permalinks have been flushed, there is only one possibility. It’s one of your plugins that’s calling the flush function and is doing wrong.
Start activating your plugins one at a time, resaving the permalinks after each activation, and check for the error message. This will identify the faulty plugin.
Thread Starter
JenRus
(@jenrus)
Thank you for the suggestions! Unfortunately, I did everything you stated and still get the error message. I’m not really sure where to look next. Do you have anymore thoughts?
Sometimes an apparently deactivated plugin can still be having an effect. Rename the plugins folder temporarily to say plugin_old. See if that clears the error.
Next, rename .htaccess to .htaccess_old, if that fixes it we know where to look.
And this isn’t a fix, its a possible workaround, make a blank page with the missing slug “classified-department”.
One more requirement for PermaLinks: in your Apache config file for your site be sure to include:
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride FileInfo
</Directory>
This fixed things for me (see http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)
Did you make/change an htc.access? This one is a pretty good resource that fixed permalink problems for me. http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks (scroll down to creating/editing)
Best of luck!
