that’s exactly what i did. and even after i delete the htaccess file, the home page works fine but if i click on any post or page it still tries to find them at a permalinks address and thus doesn’t find them (even with no htaccess file). so i’m trying to find out where this information is stored to go back to the original configuration.
i hope this is a bit clearer.
thanks.
ges: if its still giving you permalinks on your homepage, and the permalink structure is empty, try refreshing the page. Sounds like you’re looking at a cached page.
ryanduff: i tried that too, but no dice.
but i seem to have solved the problem by trying the same thing quickly. deleting the htaccess file and setting permalinks to ” nearly at the same time.
bizarre, but it got rid of the “stored” permalinks info.
thanks everyone for your help.
I have a somewhat different problem.
I wanted to use a plugin called Category Order from:
http://www.buzolich.com/techtips/category-order/.
The typical bug doesn’t let one see the categories if Permalinks are enabled. I went to the Options page, but that is not an option.
I tried changing the preferences for permalinks, selected the custom option, and changed the .htaccess file with the given script.
That made all links in the blog that were connected to the blog itself inactive. Even the comments page gave an error.
Ok, I have set all things back to normal and permalinks back to default, no problems there anymore. But I still have not figured out how to disable permalinks.
The above suggestions of eliminating the .htaccess file are not an option, because it is needed for other functions – the custom 404 page for example.
Any other options?
I went into the same problem and found a solution.
First, what’s the problem? When changing the Permalinks in Admin/Options/Permalink, I get this page error. All the site was then disabled. I then deleted the .htaccess file and the home page was working again. But the links didn’t work.
I then found out that the wp_options table contained an option: permalink_structure that had an option_value containing the file pattern (%blablah). I used the MySQL admin engine from Free and deleted this field in the row. Then everything went back to normal with the default permalink structure with pages numbers.
However, I still wonder what’s wrong in the first place. It may be due to the way Free has configured its Apache and MySQL servers.
