404 when trying to edit/delete posts or add plugins

  • I’ve been using various hosts and wordpress for over a decade now so it’s not like I’m some newbie dummy… So this is really vexing.

    It’s worth noting that I’m experiencing this issue across multiple hosts and multiple domains which makes it even weirder and makes me think its a bug in the latest wordpress build or something?

    And this is from installs that have been online and working fine for a long time, as well as brand new fresh installs.

    I’ve searched around before posting hoping to sort it out myself quickly but resaving or changing permalinks does nothing.

    And of course on established sites I already tried deactivating or even outright deleting all plugins and using the default theme. Making sure everything was freshly up to date as well.

    And there are zero plugins on these fresh installs to cause a conflict.

    On some sites I can make a simple post, some sites I cant even do that. But when I try to edit or delete said post it takes me to a 404 page.

    When I try to upload a new plugin…clicking on the ‘add new’ button takes me to a 404 page.

    This is so bizarre and annoying and its halting my workflow so I’m hoping someone has an actual fix?

    i linked to a brand new install with zero plugins that is having this issue in the ‘Link to the page you need help with:’ section and here is a site that is older and established that has started having the issue as well…https://www.zeisloftconstruction.com/ They are both on entirely different hosts too.

    Thanks

    • This topic was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by jhess56.

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    An “Add New” button takes (or should take) you directly to /wp-admin/post-new.php. As this is an actual server file and not some WP permalink, WP is not involved in processing the initial request. WP is not involved at all until the file has been loaded and its code interpreted. But you’re not even getting that far. The server is responding with a 404 before the page can even be loaded. Thus the issue is within the server’s configuration and not WP itself.

    Since the site front ends are working, requests are at least getting to the right place on the server. Something has run afoul between getting to the server and getting the file itself. The file really doe exist, right? It could be the file permissions are incorrect. Verify both through FTP. File permissions are normally 644, but can vary by installation.

    Another possibility is some .htaccess directive is intercepting the requests and causing a 404 even though the file exists. Temporarily rename .htaccess to see if that makes a difference (permalinks will no longer work, but you should be able to get to post-new.php)

    If those measures do not reveal anything, the issue could be within the server’s modSecurity configuration. Your host may need to alter it for you to have proper functionality.

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