Rewrite rules messed up after page edit

hey…i’ve been reading, but unfortunately have no clue either. I’m experiencing the same problem although my WP install is in the site root. Posts work fine, just not pages (except for Archives). The most frustrating thing is i’m running several sites on WP and only one of them has this problem.

After hours of reading and researching to try and fix this I still can’t get it working. I think it’s definitely a mod-rewrite issue.

*sad*

the really annoying part is that the WP docs state that with permalinks the htaccess should be updated whenever you add a new page…but there’s NO explanation about what formula these should be in if you have to add them manually.

i’ve tried numerous things such as deactivating all plugins, using default ‘ugly’ links etc. I still get a 404 error for all pages, both old and any new ones I try to add.

Also…I’ve noted that you mention a rewrite rule in the wp_options database table but I can’t don’t see this in any of my installs?

well i still have this problem…my next step is to setup a copy of the site with a fresh install on a different hosting account. i’m wondering if it just comes down too WP not playing nice with the host apache or php setup.

one other thing this install uses is Gallery2. so it could be that.

still testing.

I had this exact same problem as well… I lived on backups for a couple months and couldn’t get it to work.

Then I did some hacking and figured it out. First I added the plugin:

function fix_slash($string, $type) {
  global $wp_rewrite;
  if ($wp_rewrite->use_trailing_slashes==false && $type != 'single')
    return trailingslashit($string);
  return $string;
}

add_filter('user_trailingslashit', 'fix_slash', 66, 2 );

that is a bit of a custom job from this forum, but it works at adding a trailing slash to links…

Now whenever I want to edit a page I backup my sql, then I have to go edit /wp-includes/rewrite.php specifically

function get_category_permastruct() {
		if (isset($this->category_structure)) {
			return $this->category_structure;
		}

		if (empty($this->permalink_structure)) {
			$this->category_structure = '';
			return false;
		}

		//if (empty($this->category_base))
			//$this->category_structure = $this->front . 'category/';
		//else
			$this->category_structure = '/';

		$this->category_structure .= '%category%';

		return $this->category_structure;
	}

I just have to uncomment those 3 lines and it works perfect. BTW, I recommend DreamHost

okay….so after doing a huge amount of testing I decided to try a different theme template and that fixed it. (DUH) So my problem was caused by some bad code in the design template. Turns out the developer isn’t updating that template anymore so I’ve switched to another.