Blank Permalink Admin Page after changing permalink type

Great. So it’s not just me that is having problems with this. Before finding this thread I already tried many different things and was beginning to think I had to start from scratch.

I’ve now tried Netzies ‘quick fix’, no fix. I will now try Zenpihs method as worked for riacale.

Is strange that this glitch has not been sorted yet by WP tech guys.

Cheers and good luck to future readers.

OK, so thanks to Zenpih and riacle I got the options on my permalinks tab/page to show up again.

I replaced both htaccess files, root and public folder, with the new file as created with Zenpih method and changed code in …./misc.php

Even though I really want friendly urls i saved as default structure for now.

Opened site in a new window and it’s still not live…

Humf…2 steps back, 1 forward, but still no complete fix in sight.

your site isn’t live? what’s the error text that shows up?

The same thing happened to me too but it was because I changed the permissions on my index.php file in the root directory to 666 as per the other proposed solutions I found.

When I brought it back to 644 then it went fine.

Great, I just read that somewhere else but understood it was for htaccess file permissions.

Just changed back to 644 in index.php and were live!

Thank you so much riacle for getting back to me ??

Was error msg: 500 Internal Server Error

I’ve been literally beside myself for the last 3 days with every spare second self educating on google and WP forums, buggering with .htacces files.

I can finally move on to create the site in depth after sorting out the galleries and friendly urls (more htaccess files).

Back in business…ahh. and maybe a holiday to Byron Bay one day too…

Thank you, Zenpih ??

After I upgraded to WordPress 3.0 the “Permalink Settings” page was blank in my WordPress Admin Panel.

Fixed that updating the following:

1. Navigated to ../wp-admin/includes/misc.php

2. Commented the second line under “function got_mod_rewrite ()”

OLD:

function got_mod_rewrite() {
$got_rewrite = apache_mod_loaded(‘mod_rewrite’, true);
return apply_filters(‘got_rewrite’, $got_rewrite);
}

NEW:

function got_mod_rewrite() {
//$got_rewrite = apache_mod_loaded(‘mod_rewrite’, true);
return apply_filters(‘got_rewrite’, $got_rewrite);
}

3. ../wp-admin/options-permalink.php – shows up.

Many thanks!

More thanks to Zenpih!

I had the same problem as Fifi, but it’s all good now. I’m pretty sure I will have to go back in and make the same change when I update, however, which is annoying. Could this be a hosting issue at its root? I’m not averse to raising some cain with my host, but I don’t really know what the problem is.

If not, hopefully the fantastic WP development crew will get this worked out in an update soon.

Hello,

I am facing the same problem on my new WordPress 3.1 fresh installation plus 5 other wordpress domain name … They all used to work … Last time I remember was a month ago.. But Today i was unable to access that permalink page on all my domain names…

however I did find the solution, and also hoping that WordPress will fix this bug in future release.

Thanks for the solution

Zenpih for president.

Hello friends.

Try extending the amount of memory alloted to PHP from (what ever it is, probably 16M) to 32M or 64M (it’s probably not much if your server has a gig or ram… don’t be stingy!)

Just be ready to handle all the issues that come with the ability to change your permalinks.

Yes extending the memory solved this issue for me.
I want to thank Esmi, and all of the rest of you for your contributions.

excellent solution, Zeniph. Thanks a lot!

Hi, got the same problem. Tried Netzie’s quickfix and it worked!

* changed plugin directory name
* logged into admin, could access permalinks again and changed settings
* changed plugin directory name back to original
* problem resolved

That was it! Thanks all for posting here; saved me some deeeeep trouble!

zeniph BIG thank you.

all working now with yours and yours only misc.php code fix

cheers

no worries all – glad was of assistance

I’m yet to try it but it sounds like AFreeman’s (the original poster) solution above of increasing memory for PHP is the true fix – better than my hack to the core.

Hi Zeniph

Thanks, that worked! My permalinks page is back.

I confirmed with my website host that the issue is due to newer version of PHP (v5.3) installed on the web server recently.

Regards

Vijay Padiyar

Guys, please don’t hack core. Whenever you hack core, a kitten dies. (Seriously.)

You *don’t* need to hack core here. Please. Really. There’s a filter right below it that you can use. This is a plugin (works on WordPress 3.0 or higher) to force mod_rewrite:

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Force mod_rewrite
Description: Forces WordPress to believe mod_rewrite exists.
Author: Andrew Nacin
Author URI: https://andrewnacin.com/
Version: 1.0
*/

add_filter( 'got_rewrite', '__return_true' );
?>