404: Page not found

  • Resolved florafair

    (@florafair)


    12 years, 2 months ago

    Well this is what I get for trying to get fancy. I was trying to password-protect my site until it’s live, via the password protection on Network Solutions. I wasn’t sure what I was doing, so I created a “home” directory, and I password protected both that and the base directory (known as /). If I’m explaining this wrong, it shows how little I know about all this. At any rate, once I did this, the site got a little wonky. I could go to the homepage, but once I clicked on any other page, I started getting this message:

    404: Page not found
    This error is generated when there was no web page with the name you specified at the web site.
    Troubleshooting suggestions:
    Ensure the page you are linking to exists in the correct folder.
    Check your file name for case sensitivity . Index.htm is not the same as index.htm!
    Temporarily disable any rewrite rules by renaming your .htaccess file if it exists.

    I removed all the password protections, removed the Home folder I’d created in my htdocs file, and I still got this message for all pages except my homepage. I tried backing up to a previous database version, renamed my .htaccess file, tried re-uploading all my WordPress files to my ftp and overwriting the old ones, tried deleting and making new pages … nothing seems to work.

    The site is florastadler(dot)com. Help!

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  • Thread Starter florafair

    (@florafair)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    I resolved this by re-setting the permalinks to default, and then setting them back to my customization. This fixed the problem, in case anyone else runs into it in the future.

    cupflppr

    (@cupflppr)

    11 years, 9 months ago

    THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! i just did the EXACT same thing with network solutions as im developing my site.

    i got the exact same error and googled it and up came your posting!

    you saved me!!!!!

    drew

    DanDGale

    (@dandgale)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Thank you very much for posting this here! I had the same exact problem and did what you suggested (resetting my Permalinks back to default tand then changing back) and that worked perfectly. I would have never thought to do that in a million years.

    Thanks!!

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