wordpress says it can't access .htaccess (was working fine a few days ago!)

  • Resolved Theory5

    (@theory5)


    13 years, 5 months ago

    Hi,
    a few days ago I was on my site, and everything was working fine. Now today I log in and everything went to hell. I have a flash intro (not my decision) on my site.

    To keep everything from screwing up I changed my sites path to greenenergyconceptsstore.org/index.php and everything worked fine. Now every link has the index.php in it, but it tries to go to what it was before. example:
    greenenergyconceptsstore.org/index.php/recent-projects/ (which is the correct path)
    goes to
    greenenergyconceptsstore.org/recent-projects/

    When I look at the permalink settings on wordpress dash, it keeps saying it can’t access my .htaccess file and I need to do it manually. The permissions are at 755 for .htaccess but i did try it with 775, which didn’t fix it either and the .htaccess code never changed in between now and a few days ago.

    please help me!

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  • Now today I log in and everything went to hell.

    Can you give more detail? It looks fine in IE9.

    you do not need index.php in urls as they automaticly go your domain name as index.php is default file that opens for a domain name.

    Thread Starter Theory5

    (@theory5)

    Kmessinger, have you looked at the other pages? None of them show up for me because of that permalink problem, that’s what i mean when I say “everything went to hell”.

    Gov, yes, but when you change the homepage to include /index.php because the base name goes to a flash movie the paths change by themselves.

    anyways, the problem is that wordpress can’t see the .htaccess file. It gives me this exact error:
    If your .htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so these are the mod_rewrite rules you should have in your .htaccess file. Click in the field and press CTRL + a to select all.

    oh and here is the contents of my .htaccess file

    DirectoryIndex intro_55_v8.swf index.php

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

    Kmessinger, have you looked at the other pages?

    No I didn’t. I clicked on the product links in the sidebar and all came up fine. I see the problem with the pages.

    BTW, the links for the products in the side bar code wise have the /index.php but when loaded into the browser they do not have the index.php in the path.

    Thread Starter Theory5

    (@theory5)

    yes, thats the problem. the other pages have /index.php in their path as well, but something is messing it up so it doesn’t load with index.php in the path.

    Do you know what could be causing my wordpress installation to not see my .htaccess file?

    Thread Starter Theory5

    (@theory5)

    FIXED:
    turns out my e-commerce plugin was having problems. I deactivated and reactivated it and everything works fine now. Im going to have to keep an eye on that.

    I do not see it changed try this in permalinks custom structure
    /index.php/%postname%/

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