Permalinks, .htaccess and the about us page

  • Resolved jasonewillis

    (@jasonewillis)


    14 years, 9 months ago

    All started when I was updating the about us page on a fresh 2.8 install. I changed the “Permalink: http://www.mysite.com/?page_id=2” in the ‘about us’ edit page within the admin panel. There is a button the ‘change permalinks’ (/wp-admin/options-permalink.php) so, I clicked it, changed to ‘month and name’ and a message about updating the .htaccess file appeared below. Didn’t know how to do this, so I changed it back to the default. Bottom line: My site is not visible anymore. Just a webpage with nothing on it. No matter what I seem to do. Tried other choices, went back to default, updated my .htaccess file to allow updates, still nothing. Please help me understand what I did and what to do to fix this. 🙂
    respectively,
    jw

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  • Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    14 years, 9 months ago

    what you did was edit a permalink and that structure wasn’t specified in the permalink settings – so it borked the internal rewrite rules

    do this
    delete .htaccess from wordpress root
    regenerate permalinks with desired structure
    admin – settings – permalinks

    Thread Starter jasonewillis

    (@jasonewillis)

    14 years, 9 months ago

    Borked. lol. Well, I wish I could say it worked. I deleted the .htaccess in the root, choose the default permalink, saved changes, went back to the site and its still a blank white box of nothingness. Tried this process about 3 times with the same result.

    Then, for some reason, I went to the themes…and noticed a different theme was now chosen…one I didn’t have in the theme folder, if that makes sense. So, I am not sure why, but my themes could have been affected also. Does the .htaccess file have anything to do with themes I wonder? Since I have been trying to figure this out, I have not touched themes. Weird. Well, thanks for the help, it is working now. 🙂

    jw

    Mark / t31os

    (@t31os_)

    14 years, 9 months ago

    and a message about updating the .htaccess file appeared below.

    Perhaps a message that said “WordPress does not have write permissions” or something to that degree…

    If that’s the case, then WordPress can’t create or write to the file, suffice to say this is why saving new settings is having no effect…

    EDIT** Just noticed it’s actually working for you now, sorry i read the post just a tad tooooo quick… lol…

    *ignore me now*

    Thread Starter jasonewillis

    (@jasonewillis)

    14 years, 9 months ago

    @t31os – Thanks for the insight, thats exactly what it was saying. “If your .htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so these are the mod_rewrite rules you should have in your .htaccess file. Click in the field and press CTRL + a to select all.” Though I changed the file to allow write permissions, still wasn’t able to get it to work. I did copy/paste the code into the file and it now displays the permalink nicely. I am probably just shy around the server admin portions of the setup at the moment. 🙂

    jw

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