Title: 404 error when making new pages/posts
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# 404 error when making new pages/posts

 *  [atlantaboxwoods](https://wordpress.org/support/users/atlantaboxwoods/)
 * (@atlantaboxwoods)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-making-new-pagesposts/)
 * Hello,
 * I’ve scoured the forums and tried different combinations of every solution out
   there for the past two days, and still no luck.
    Whenever I try to publish/preview
   a new post/page, I get a 404 error. It’s not writing the page to my server. What’s
   weird is that on the HOMEPAGE, the NAVIGATION LINK to the new page i attempted
   to post will show up, yet clicking on it reveals same old 404 error. (Using 3.0,
   should I downgrade?)
 * Notes of interest (where the problem may lie):
    The domain is iownpandora.com,
   with WP installed in the root directory.
 * Permalink canonicalization is set to /%category%/%postname%/
 * .htaccess looks like this:
 * # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> Options FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine
   On RewriteBase /blog/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-
   d RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain\.co\.uk$ [NC] RewriteRule (.*) [http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/$1](http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/$1)[
   R=301,L] RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress

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 *  Thread Starter [atlantaboxwoods](https://wordpress.org/support/users/atlantaboxwoods/)
 * (@atlantaboxwoods)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-making-new-pagesposts/#post-1632422)
 * *Note above – where it says yourdomain, i have my own domain, just to clear that
   up
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-making-new-pagesposts/#post-1632438)
 * > It’s not writing the page to my server.
 * How do you know? Have you checked your database?
 * Have you tried resetting your custom permalinks back to the default setting and
   deleting/renaming your WordPress .htaccess file?
 *  Thread Starter [atlantaboxwoods](https://wordpress.org/support/users/atlantaboxwoods/)
 * (@atlantaboxwoods)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-making-new-pagesposts/#post-1632714)
 * [@esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) – I reset permalinks and deleted
   the .htaccess file, multiple times in multiple orders and nothing works.
 * When it was FRESH OUT OF THE BOX, the first test page I made worked. Once I changed
   the permalinks, nothing has worked since. Even deleting/reinstalling wordpress
   on the server and optimizing/repairing the databases using /maint/repair.php
 *  [Sasha1985](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sasha1985/)
 * (@sasha1985)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-making-new-pagesposts/#post-1632715)
 * I don’t know a lot about HTACCESS but ran into this on another site, whenever
   I made a custom HTACCESS file and uploaded it to the server things worked great.
 * But then say if I changed the permalink structure through WordPress options everything
   would break. Took awhile to figure out what was going on until i stumbled across
   this on another site.
 * “05. WordPress is overwriting my .htaccess file?
 * Yes. WordPress will overwrite your custom htaccess file if you upload one to 
   your server and then change anything in the permalink options within WordPress,
   or load a plugin that utilizes these features.
    This will cause your htaccess
   file to be overwritten and you will lose any changes you have made.”
 * The solution sounded like make any HTACCESS / permalink / plugin changes within
   WordPress first and then add your own rules to the HTACCESS file after that has
   been done.

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 * Last reply from: [Sasha1985](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sasha1985/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-making-new-pagesposts/#post-1632715)
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