404 error pages that happen after clicking update buttons and such generally occur when there’s a redirect problem with your site/hosting, could be anything from the .htaccess file to your hostings management of your domain redirection (which could be the part of your hosting where you redirect www. to non-www. and the like in your control panel)
First thing to check is your .htaccess file, if it’s got erroneous code still from the cache, just delete the .htaccess file and have the settings -> permalinks recreate it. To verify the .htaccess being the problem you can set the pretty permalinks to (not being used) the top most option and then try a few times with the publish post and see if it happens again.
Thanks for getting back to me, Frumph! This is still a little over my head; would it be possible to give me a step by step for solving this? Thanks a bunch:)
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This is the exact message I’m receiving:
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@jonwatersauthor.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
.. when you deleted your cache plugin did you just deactivate it and delete it? because some cache plugins require you to go into the wp-content/ directory to delete the advanced-cache.php file and wp-content/cache directory and such as well and also clear out the .htaccess and edit the wp-config.php to remove the cache line..
.. regardless of that though, I suggest trying the first method which is rename the .htaccess file from your root installation and set the settings -> permalinks to the first option at the top and seeing if it indeed is an .htaccess problem
… k, well try the .htaccess thing
I just deleted it; should i reinstall it , and try it?
.. no, go to settings -> permalinks, select the first option and click save
I just did it, but I’m not sure if I should do another test post because I’ve done two already today; maybe I’ll try tomorrow! Thanks for all your help:)
I tried it again, and it’s still not working:((( Any other suggestions?????
I had WP Super cache plugin, which I deleted altogether; the other cache-related plugin I use, is WP TOTAL CACHE…Should I reinstall the old one, and do what you said about deleting the advanced cache.php first, before getting rid of completely?
This message comes up in the WP TOTAL CACHE:
Page caching is not available: /home/wartica99/jonwatersauthor.com/wp-content/advanced-cache.php is not installed. Either the /home/wartica99/jonwatersauthor.com/wp-content directory is not write-able or another caching plugin installed. This error message will automatically disappear once the change is successfully made.
