Permalink Broken – 404 Error

  • After going into settings and changing the permalink structure from default to post name it no longer links to any of the pages in the menu.

    I get the error
    “404 – File or directory not found; The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.”

    I thought maybe it can no longer find it so on the actual page itself in the backend I made sure the permalink was the page name and if it was not I change it.

    Still no luck.

    I then went to my menus and created links to each page instead of using the pages option itself. Still no luck.

    I read a few forums and it said to change it back to default, didn’t work. Changed it back to post name, doesn’t work.

    I am not sure what is going on here but this seems rather bizarre, I have never had this kind of issue with any wordpress sites in the past.

    Thoughts?

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  • Can you post the URL please. Also can you post the contents of the htaccess file.

    There seems to be a lot of Permalink issues lately. The standard debug methods is to disable all your plugins and test it. If it solves the issue then activate the plugins one at a time until it breaks again. Try a different theme is another step.

    Thread Starter JoshJackC

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    Also, tried to create a brand new page, thinking If i had to I would retreat each page and link the new ones but I get the same error. Any page I try to view even in the page editor with the “view page” link still gets me the same error.

    Thread Starter JoshJackC

    (@joshjackc)

    URL is newsite.seymourtv.net

    Thread Starter JoshJackC

    (@joshjackc)

    Tried disabling all plugins, which disables my navigation menu so I had no way to even check the permalink. Tried typing in the url to a page and still received the same error, I have re-enabled al the plugins and have reached out to our IT guy to find the hatches file

    This is a good write-up on these kind of issues.

    https://websynthesis.com/fixing-wordpress-404-errors/

    Really need to check the .htaccess file. I think its better to put it back to default permalinks and debug that first …then look at the rewrite rules and get the pretty links working.

    Thread Starter JoshJackC

    (@joshjackc)

    Figured it out but wanted to share for anyone else that might have this issue. Our server is through Windows IIS and we had to set up URL Rewrites for WordPress under IIS on a Windows Server. Don’t ask me how, I had to sit with our IT guy and he figured it out but hopefully this give some people direction…

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