I also have this issue. All old pages work fine. All old and new posts work fine. htaccess checks out as fine (the normal, default htaccess rules that wp always uses, with no extra rules in there). But creating new pages (and yes, Publishing them), renders 404 errors for the page. They exist. They are in the admin and can be edited, but when viewed, they are 404’s.
Some examples:
Old page that works fine: https://www.seo-scoop.com/about-seo-scoop/
New page that 404s:
https://www.seo-scoop.com/about-seo-scoop/privacy-policy/
In admin, under manage pages, it is there:
1309 Privacy Policy DazzlinDonna 2008-03-07 4:24 pm View Edit Delete
It is set to Published.
This happened a while back when I upgraded to a newer version, but I don’t recall exactly when. I’ve just lived with it until now, but now I really need to get it fixed. I’ve scoured the boards, and seen others with issues, but nothing resolved.
I would think that since new posts handle permalinks fine, that new pages should too, no?
If you need ANY other info, I’m happy to provide it. You won’t get any negative attitude from me. ??
ADDED: I should add that this is on a mediatemple server, and I have another wp blog running on the same server, with no issues whatsoever. standard apache/php/mysql setup.
WP version 2.3.3