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1. fielddesign
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'm having trouble with my permalinks. I moved a wordpress site from my local server to a subdirectory called "test" on a remote host (servage.net) and every thing is working fine in terms of connecting to the database I imported, logging into wp-admin and viewing home page, but I get a 404 Not Found page/message when I click on the navigation links. I followed advice on many posts I have seen in the forums here by 1) resetting the permalinks back to "default", in which case they work fine. But when I reset the permalinks back to the setting I had before (custom: /%postname%/) they still don't work.

   I have also read in these forums that the .htaccess file may be the issue??? here is the content of my htaccess file if this helps:
   # BEGIN WordPress
   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /test/
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /test/index.php [L]
   </IfModule>

   # END WordPress

   Thanks for any advice!

2. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   completely delete the .htaccess file
   then set and save your custom permalinks again, letting wordpress generate new rewrite rules

3. fielddesign
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks samboll. I did what you recommended but it's still not working (I checked the .htaccess file, and the content is the same). Any other options?

4. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   a link to site?

5. fielddesign
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Here's a link to the site with the permalinks set to "default" (so the navigation links work)...

   http://www.lamag.org/test/

   I would like to get this resolved before moving these files into the root directory (and replacing the current static site). Do you think I should start over by reinstalling a fresh version of wordpress into the "test" directory and then changing the usual things like wp-config and wp-content, etc.

   Thx!

6. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   don't understand why it's not working on a 'nix server
   maybe try adding this to top of .htaccess before wordpress stuff before you install again

   Options +FollowSymLinks

7. beccaC
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I'm also having problems with my Permalinks after moving a local site to a remote server. The problem, I think, has to do with the way my server host handles URLs. The actual files (it's a test blog for a client, which I've put inside my own domain) are at:
   http://www.rhcvisualwriting.com/html/clients/jt/
   but the URL is:
   http://www.rhcvisualwriting.com/clients/jt/
   The server host drops the /html/ for urls.

   When the Permalinks setting is at default (which WP sees as:
   http://www.rhcvisualwriting.com/html/clients/jt/?p=123)
   the homepage works correctly, but links to pages and posts generate 404s. If I create a custom Permalink setting that drops the /html/ out of the URL, then the homepage is a 404 too.
   Though I've set the permissions in my htaccess file to allow group read/write, WordPress still thinks it doesn't have permission--when I try to do a custom Permalink, it tells me it can't write in the file, so to paste the code below.

   http://www.rhcvisualwriting.com/html/clients/jt/?p=123
   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /html/clients/jt/
   RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /html/clients/jt/index.php [L]
   </IfModule>

   Because of the /html/ directory problem, I'm not sure WP is even generating the right code. So I tried changing the rewrite rule to
   RewriteRule . /clients/jt/index.php [L]
   Didn't make any difference.

   Is there a clue in the fact that on the Permalinks Settings page, there are these two error messages:

   Warning: is_writable() [function.is-writable]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/) is not within the allowed path(s): (/nfs:/tmp:/usr/local:/etc/apache2/gs-bin) in /nfs/c01/h05/mnt/33146/domains/rhcvisualwriting.com/html/clients/jt/wp-admin/options-permalink.php on line 141

   Warning: is_writable() [function.is-writable]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/) is not within the allowed path(s): (/nfs:/tmp:/usr/local:/etc/apache2/gs-bin) in /nfs/c01/h05/mnt/33146/domains/rhcvisualwriting.com/html/clients/jt/wp-admin/includes/misc.php on line 133

   I looked at those files/lines, and they refer to user permissions.

   Any help will be greatly appreciated!
   Thanks

8. gluecake
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I am also having the same issue as the OP.
   I've tried having the same .htaccess file - I even tried adding in

   Options +FollowSymLinks

   to no avail. As well, I tried to see if I was having the dropped folder issue beccaC mentioned, but everything I changed it to seemed to still result in the site's inability to run with custom permalinks.

   Is there anything someone could think of that would make this not run? I'm on an Apache server. I have another site on there that has never given me issues with a mod rewrite, so I know it's activated. I checked the other site's rewrite code & even used that to create the WordPress one to no avail.

   Could there be something I left unchanged in the database import that would cause this? I'm at wit's end.

9. Wikusdp
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Check if the mod_rewrite extension is loaded on your server.

10. gluecake
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    mod_rewrite extension is indeed loaded on the server, as it works on other sites that exist on the server.

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