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  • Resolved Venerated Coconut

    (@venerated-coconut)


    12 years, 2 months ago

    This is bizarre. WP is installed and works in a subdirectory–until I go to permalinks under settings. At first I thought I wiped out the site by changing them, but upon 2nd and 3rd tries, the installation STOPS WORKING as soon as I click on PERMALINKS under settings, before I even change options or save.

    I am running WP on a larger site (which isn’t mine, but a client’s–i’m just doing the WP site), and after I go to the permalinks page, any link i click in the WP directory goes straight to the main site’s homepage.

    I’ve fished around in the htacess but i cannot see what’s going on.

    What is happening?

    Thanks!

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  • RichardWPG

    (@richardwpg)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

    Thread Starter Venerated Coconut

    (@venerated-coconut)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Yes, I already read that. It offered no explanation.

    A.Niraj Kumar

    (@webchilly)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Hello There,
    Can i have a look at the site? May be get it touch, I am sure i can fix it asap.

    Niraj

    Nikki Blight

    (@kionae)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Have you tried deleting/renaming the .htaccess file and letting WordPress generate a fresh one?

    Thread Starter Venerated Coconut

    (@venerated-coconut)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    @kionae, yes, i tried this. thanks, though. what i find strange is that the site wipes out when a simply go to permalinks, rather than when I change an option and save.

    @niraj, can i send you the link privately? (though now the installation isn’t even coming up). I’m not sure my client would like their site up on a forum. 🙂

    thanks!

    Thread Starter Venerated Coconut

    (@venerated-coconut)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Here is the site: http://veneratedcoconut.com/2012/02/11/9e71-time-out/#comment-402

    I’ve left the link in the comments so i can delete it. You see it’s going straight to the main site. I do think it’s the .htaccess but…

    thanks!

    Thread Starter Venerated Coconut

    (@venerated-coconut)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    More info:

    When I go to permalinks, it’s changing the .htacesss file to this:

    # BEGIN WordPress

    # END WordPress

    totally empty. is this a problem with the install or the larger site (which isn’t mine)? Can I write in the proper code for proper permalinks myself?

    Should I be disturbed the installation is acting this way??

    thanks

    TCBarrett

    (@tcbarrett)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    When you say “the installation STOPS WORKING” do you mean:
    1. That specific single admin page does not load
    2. The whole site, including the whole front end and all the backend admin pages stop working?

    And by ‘stops working’ do you mean:
    1. You get errors
    2. You get blank pages
    3. No errors, but it looks wrong (colours, sizes, fonts, images)

    Thread Starter Venerated Coconut

    (@venerated-coconut)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    stops working = “after I go to the permalinks page, any link i click in the WP directory goes straight to the main site’s homepage.”

    WP is installed in the subdirectory of a larger site, which isn’t mine/my charge. As soon as i go to permalinks in WP, the WP disappears and goes to the main site (public html/root directory). I can get it back by rewriting the htaccess, but that doesn’t change the permalinks issue.

    1. That specific single admin page does not load – no, it does not
    2. The whole site, including the whole front end and all the backend admin pages stop working? the whole WP site does not load, but the main site (not wp) does.

    Thread Starter Venerated Coconut

    (@venerated-coconut)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Fixed. Thanks all!!

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