New Pages Won’t Display

Hi folks,

I’ve read around in the Codex and other support threads about similar issues, but haven’t yet found a solution that works for me.

I’m trying to activate pretty permalinks on a WP install for a client, so that my pages will display with a name instead of an ID number. The pages exist and are published, but when the permalinks are reset, they return a “404 not found” error (when viewed from the Manage > Page screen). They also don’t appear in page previews within the Manage > Page > Write Page screen), though I can edit the text fine.

I have tried several things so far:

1) Modifying permissions to allow .htaccess file to be changed.
2) Created new .htaccess file.
3) Contacted my server admin to make sure that mod_rewrite and FollowSymLinks and AllowOverRide All are all set correctly (and server was restarted).

Here’s the virtual server setup sent to me by my admin in Apache’s httpd.conf file:

<VirtualHost IPNUMBEROBSCURED>
DocumentRoot /usr/web/quote
ServerName www.DOMAINNAMEOBSCURED.com
ErrorLog /usr/web/quote/.logs/error_log
TransferLog /usr/web/quote/.logs/access_log
 <Directory /usr/web/quote>
  AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .html
  Options +Indexes ExecCGI Includes FollowSymLinks
   AllowOverride All
 </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

I’ve also installed the AskApache ReWrite Rules Viewer plugin for WP, which says my .htaccess file looks like this:

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

# END WordPress

And the plugin’s interpretation of those rules says:

> Permalink: /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
> Writable .htaccess file found
> mod_rewrite found
> Not using pathinfo style index permalinks
> Using mod_rewrite permalinks

I have tried the PATHINFO version of the permalinks and that *does* work, but I would rather use the other option. Does anyone have ideas of what could be going wrong here, what could I look at or look for? I have tried everything I know to look for at this point and running out of options. Thanks a TON for helping!