Try regenerating your permalinks.
Settings > Permalinks
Log into your Dashboard and save your permalinks again. See if that helps. If it doesn’t, provide a link to your site so someone here can see the error.
Sounds like a permalinks issue if it’s not displaying your 404.php
Okay so it looks like the default permalinks are okay. It’s just any other type of permalink gives me 404s. What do I need to add to my htaccess to get this working?
What do I need to add to my htaccess to get this working?
Exactly what the message tells you to add when you save your permalinks. Scroll down a little.
Where am I supposed to see this .htaccess message? On the Settings > Permalinks page? Cause I don’t see anything about .htaccess on there.
The message should be directly below the submit button in Settings->Permalinks, but it doesn’t show up at all if the .htaccess file is writable by the server. If its writable, WP will write the file for you. If you don’t see the message then presumably WP is able to write the file. Have you checked to see what is in your .htaccess? It should look a lot like this, but likely won’t match exactly
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /sandbox/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /sandbox/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
I guess I’m assuming you are on an Apache server. Any idea what server your site is running on?
Ah ya its CentOS and Apache. So if .htaccess is writable my WordPress it would take care of it?
Okay WordPress did write to my .htaccess after I gave it proper write permissions. It wrote this:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
However, it did not fix the problem. I’m still get 404 errors on my permalinks.
And according to phpinfo(); Apache does indeed have mod_rewrite loaded.
Check the two ‘(URL)’ listings in Settings->General– third and fourth input boxes from the top.
Is there an url where I can see the problem?
The WordPress address and Blog address are both set to the url of the site: http://wordpress.huebnerpetersen.com
Permalinks are set to Month & Name
My .htaccess is writable my WordPress. The contents are:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Disable all of your plugins and switch to the default theme.
Is it worth giving WordPress a helping hand with the ErrorDocument?
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
