"Older posts" link not working

  • jdlockhart

    (@jdlockhart)


    15 years, 8 months ago

    This a relatively new install, as of yesterday. When I click on “older posts”, the page is not found. I’m running an auto blog and just noticed this. I have the following plugins installed:

    Akismet
    All in one SEO Pack
    AutoBlogged
    Google XML SiteMap
    SEO SearchTerms tagging 2
    Wordpress Popular Posts
    Wordpress Related Posts
    WP-Insert
    WP-unique 2.7

    Any ideas? I haven’t really changed anything in my actual settings, except for those plug-ins… um.. if it helps, my permalinks are set as “/%postname%:

    HELP!!! 🙂

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    Have you tried:

    – deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem? If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

    – switching to the TwentyTen theme to rule out any theme-specific problems?

    Thread Starter jdlockhart

    (@jdlockhart)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    OK I will try that and get back to you. I am already using TwentyTen.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    Have you edited any of the theme’s templates?

    Thread Starter jdlockhart

    (@jdlockhart)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    OK Go figure, I disabled everything and it still does it. It’s pointing to /page/2, which doesn’t seem to even exist on my server. Wth?!?!

    Thread Starter jdlockhart

    (@jdlockhart)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    No, all I’ve done is change the banner.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    Try resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

    A link to your site might also help…

    Thread Starter jdlockhart

    (@jdlockhart)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    OK I’ll see if I can figure that out. LOL. It’s http://www.myfastbux.com – be patient with it. The host I’m using has been having issues since yesterday with being slow, not working, saying service unavailable – being a big pain in the butt to me basically, which might have something to do with it but I dunno. SimplyHosting is sucking right now. lol.

    Thread Starter jdlockhart

    (@jdlockhart)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    ok yea, update – renamed my plugins directory, made a new blank one. Same thing. Every post on there was made with AutoBlogged via RSS feed so I dunno if it messed something up? The posts are THERE, I’ve got 204 listed, but it would seem the directory is NOT or something.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    That looks like a server issue. The “not found” page is not from WordPress. It’s from your hosts – which suggests that the failure is at the server level. You could try resetting your custom permalinks back to the default setting and deleting/renaming your WordPress .htaccess file. If this works, then try setting a custom permalink structure back up again.

    Thread Starter jdlockhart

    (@jdlockhart)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    OK well… default setting does work, can’t find an .htaccess file anywhere. Switched it back to %postname% and it does same thing – is that a valid setting? I got it from an ebook on setting up an autoblog. Guess I’ll just leave it like that and ask the author of the book what’s up. lol. Thanks for all your help, at least I got it functional. Don’t know if changing that will hurt anything as far as SEO which is why I think it was suggested.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    Switched it back to %postname% and it does same thing – is that a valid setting?

    %postname% is a valid permalink tag but it’s not ideal. see Using_Permalinks for the reasons why, when used alone, it may effect site performance.

    When you tried switching back to your custom permalink structure, did you get a message about making .htaccess writeable? If not, then you should contact your hosts and ask them if there is an issue with mod_rewrite on the server.

    Thread Starter jdlockhart

    (@jdlockhart)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    No, I never got any type of errors, it just says “Permalink Structure Updated”. I can’t even find an htaccess file on my ftp site and I just forced hidden file view in FileZilla. I also just looked at the vars.php and it says:

    $is_apache = (strpos($_SERVER[‘SERVER_SOFTWARE’], ‘Apache’) !== false || strpos($_SERVER[‘SERVER_SOFTWARE’], ‘LiteSpeed’) !== false);

    SO… I’m guessing this server isn’t using apache or something and the .htaccess isn’t being created..

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    The most likely answer is that mod_rewrite isn’t running on your server.

    Thread Starter jdlockhart

    (@jdlockhart)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    oh well. I’m getting a free server and subdomain on 0sites.net and gonna play with it on there, I know they use apache and all that good stuff. hehe. I also just searched for the htaccess file in filezilla with remote search.. nothing. Thanks for your help you’ve been awesome 🙂

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    You’re welcome.

    One final thought – free servers aren’t really the best places to run WordPress. You very often run into server or memory problems and, as it’s free, have no one to complain to or ask for the issues to be resolved. Nothing beats decent paid hosting – preferably Linux running Apache.

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