You’ll have to delete the .htaccess file.
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DJ
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I have been deleting the .htaccess file. That revives the site but it doesn’t correct the error in the Permalinks. Whenever I do anything that changes .htaccess, the site goes 500.
Whenever I do anything that changes .htaccess, the site goes 500.
That sounds more like a hosting problem than a WordPress problem. Have you contacted your hosting provider?
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DJ
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Of course, Bluehost said it was a WordPress problem. Based on the numerous permalink problems listed in this forum, I tend to side with Bluehost. I have read a few dozen posts and none seem to provide a solution.
For the record, I never had a problem with my permalinks under Bluehost, and I haven’t heard any Bluehost users complaining either.
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DJ
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WordPress is the problem, not Bluehost.
Delete your current .htaccess file and put only this line in a new .htaccess file (don’t worry, you can delete it later):
Redirect / http://wordpress.org/
The above line is a standard by-the-book temporary redirect. It should redirect any point of your site to wordpress.org. If that causes your site to issue a 500 error, or if it simply doesn’t work, then the problem is BlueHost’s, not WordPress’.
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DJ
(@dj)
Thank you for your help.
The site redirects back to WP.
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DJ
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Two hours of my life are gone but here is what I did to fix. First, I deleted the Category Base entry and ignored Structure. It updated fine but the site was still MIA. Whenever I went in to Permalinks admin, ht was immediately corrupted, so I was just going in circles. This last time, I went in to Perm Admin, then deleted the ht file, then deleted Perm instructions, and it updated properly.
My baby has come back.
Thanks for your help.
