Permalinks not working

  • kazetunnel

    (@kazetunnel)


    12 years, 8 months ago

    Hi I am currently an intern at this company working on their website. I do not know much about coding stuff.. wordpress…php… because this is not my field of expertise. therefore im seeking help here. Pls help me out

    So the layout of the website is working fine. However, navigation seems to be a problem. I realised that no pages could be accessed in the website. Every page that I click, the content will always shows the contents of homepage, even though the address bar shows the correct URL. For example, i am navigating to “About us page”, the URL is shows correctly, but the content below is for “Home page”. This applies to all pages as well.

    I did some research before and found out that the problem lies with the permalinks or htaccess. Changing the permalink settings to “default” would work but we would want the URL of pages to be descriptive due to SEO purposes.

    this is the website: http://www.dioneinternational.com.sg

    Please help me out! Will there be anyway to solve this while not changing the permalinks?

    Anw, the live preview of the admin login page is not working as well. All I see is a white blank screen during preview. I was wondering if this is linked or part of the problem?

    Thanks!

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  • leejosepho

    (@leejosepho)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    I did some research before and found out that the problem lies with the permalinks or htaccess. Changing the permalink settings to “default” would work but…

    I can tell you that I have my permalinks set to Post Name
    http://www.nnysandbox.net/sample-post/
    and that /%postname%/ shows in Custom Structure just below that.

    I can tell you this is what WordPress generates for the above:

    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

    After that, I could only guess at what that code might do for you.

    Thread Starter kazetunnel

    (@kazetunnel)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    Yes, correct. My current settings for permalinks is Post Name.

    So am i supposed to change my codes into the one you provided? and where can i change them? Sorry im really not good at this..

    leejosepho

    (@leejosepho)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    Please know I am not even close to being an expert here, but the above is the entire content of my default .htaccess file for my own site’s root folder. So, use FTP at your server to see what you presently have there and then decide what to do from there. My file currently running there is a huge one in comparison to the above, but the above is my “square one” fall-back whenever something might go wrong.

    leejosepho

    (@leejosepho)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    And, the live preview of the admin login page is not working as well. All I see is a white blank screen during preview. I was wondering if this is linked or part of the problem?

    Having just again read you first post all the way through, I would actually guess you have something else going on than any bad permalink code.

    seoboostertips

    (@seoboostertips)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Hi kazetunnel,

    I am fetching same problem as like you.
    My site’s home page is working but post link is not working, Every post shows blank white. To let you know for permalink I use “Post name”.

    I guess my site’s problem occur for cache and I use “WP Super Cache”. Now I’ve deactivate this plugin but still my site have same problem.
    here is a sample post link: http://www.seoboostertips.com/protect-passwords-hackers/

    If you are familiar with this type of problem, Please help me out of it.

    Is there can help me?

    Thanks in advanced

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    @seoboostertips: If you require assistance then, as per the Forum Welcome, please post your own topic.

    deviscloset

    (@deviscloset)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    I am having a problem with my permalinks and not sure i understood above.

    In settings/permalinks/post name
    changes are saved and i get the message that the structure has been updated.

    for all new blogs i post the structure is not a name and shows up as a numerical number. Furthermore when i copy and paste that permalink into a webbrowser i get an error. :Not Found

    Apologies, but the page you requested could not be found. Perhaps searching will help.

    This structure use to work for me and if i go to older posts and blogs it works. Not sure if something has changed but if you could outline baby steps on how i could fix it would be appreciated.

    Thanks so much!

    avishekjana

    (@avishekjana)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    I found the same permalinks problem while migrating my website. I’m using a Linux OS. Then I solved it by changing permission of .htaccess file so that WordPress can rewrite the file.

    Another change required in Apache server:
    open file (Using Terminal):
    sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

    change the following part in that file:

    <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride All
        </Directory>
        <Directory /var/www/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

    AllowOverride is none by default change it to All

    Then save the file & restart the Apache server.

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