404 error when adding new page or post…

Hi,

Set your desired permalink from wordpress admin area and add this code in htaccess of your blog/site:

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Thanks,

Shane G.

where can i find the permalink page on my wordpress?

do i make a .htaccess file in my wp-admin folder or where?

hello?

please, all i need is to find out how to do this and then i will be done with this blog and i can move on.

WordPress automatically creates your .htaccess file. In order to edit it, on whatever SFTP/FTP client you’re using, you’ll need to enable view -> hidden objects.

This page should help you further:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Permalinks

so i made a .htaccess file in the folder(s) where my index.php file was with:

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

and i still havent gotten any of my pages/posts to post on the site ??

any other code i need instead?

pleaseee i really need this help. its the last thing i need to make the blog live.

I was banging my head against the wall for the past two days because of the same issue. I moved servers and every page underneath my domain was returning a 404 error. Very frustrating…

In my case, it was an Apache directive in my virtual hosts file:
AllowOverride FileInfo

There is, of course, many reasons why you could get this error… that was the reason for mine. If you have control over that part of your server, you may want to check it again. Hopefully this helps…

( And the .htaccess should go in the root folder, the same folder as the wp-config.php file. Check the permissions on it as well. )

Also make sure your Permalinks have been updated and saved. Settings > Permalinks (select the desired format) > Save Changes

i’ll check in a little bit about my host & Apache.

but right now i dont see where my permalink settings are.
i went to my settings and it just shows: Writing, Reading, Discussion, Media, Privacy, Delete Blog, OpenID, and Domains.

i then looked through each one and none of them tell me about my permalink settings.

you should have a menu called settings->permalinks

default options in settings menu are, in this order:
general
writing
reading
discussion
media
privacy
permalinks
miscellaneous

this is weird. i tried logging into wordpress on my office computer and it popped up with permalinks.

well cool beans. it all works fantastically.
all i did was go into my FTP and deleted my .htaccess file and it all worked.

now my NEW problem is that my main page will be used for new posts, but i want people to be able to go into one of my other pages to read posts that i make for those specific topics once they leave my new posts.

Big thanks to bh_WP_fan and RVoodoo. I just ran into this issue today when restoring my wp db from backup. The Settings > Permalinks > Save Changes fix did the trick!

Hi guys – my issue was quite different but seemed similar. Here were the symptoms:

1. Moved WP site from host A to host B (including DB etc)
2. Configured new username and password for mysql in wp-config.php.
3. Went to home page, old posts showed, no new ones???
4. Logged into back end, everything looked fine.
5. Changed a post that was showing on the front page, no visible change.
6. WTF / GOOGLE / HAIR PULLING / etc etc
7. Discovered that there was an index.html file in my WP root that contained a static version of my site.

I don’t know how this index.html file got created, but the difference was that the DirectoryIndex order on host B listed index.html BEFORE index.php so it wasn’t an issue on my old host.

Hope this keeps the amount of global hair pulling to a minimum.

Cheers,

– Bob –
https://www.guru.net.nz/