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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: All auxiliary WP pages now get 404 errorThank you so much HandySolo!!! You were spot on!
As a review: the Hotlink Protection program provided by my hosting company in cpanel turned out to be the culprit in rewriting .htaccess…it erased and rewrote its own instructions over the WordPress stuff, effectively ruining the functionality of WP.
FOR FUTURE REFERENCE: to anyone who has a similar .htaccess corrupton problem, the way I fixed it was changed the CHMOD from the ‘normal’ 644 to 666. This is to allow WordPress unfettered access to making adjustments to the .htaccess file.
I then went into my admin panel for WordPress and made a quick test page to publish. Creating this new page prompted WordPress to automatically review and fix the content in the .htaccess file.
Now that the .htaccess file was fixed, my pages worked again. I then changed .htaccess CHMOD back to 644 to protect/secure it.
Regards,
GrantForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: All auxiliary WP pages now get 404 errorWow, thanks HandySolo, I think you’re onto something…I looked at my .htaccess file and it seems like my hosting-supplied Hotlink Protection program (from my cpanel) somehow completely gutted and replaced it.
I’m assuming I can just replace the messed-up .htaccess file with the default one that comes with WP…I’ll try that and check back if it works.
Edit: I looked for the .htaccess file…guess it isn’t there in the WP folder…I’ll check for doccumentation on the link you provided for what content to re-add to it.