Changed to pretty premalinks and now NO SITE!

  • HELP!

    I have lived with the warnings that I didn’t have pretty premalinks for weeks and finally I got an answer from my webhosting on how to write to the .htaccess file. Yippie I thought now I can get that resolved. When I changed the permalinks to %postname% now my site is gone! I can’t even get into the admin to change them back to default. https://www.turtlewings.be I just get an error 500, whatever I do!

    Help! This is horrible. My site can not go down now, over this stupid thing I was just trying to update!

    Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

    Jules

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  • well….to get back into your site, delete the .htaccess. That should get you back in.

    Maybe post your .htaccess here to see if we can see an issue

    Thread Starter turtlewings

    (@turtlewings)

    I am not very good at this, but here is the file .htaccess I just downloaded from my server. I will try to delete it now! crossing fingers!

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

    # END WordPress

    you can just rename it too… like old.htaccess which will also stop it from being used

    Thread Starter turtlewings

    (@turtlewings)

    So it worked to delete it, but only for the homepage and admin page. When I change permalinks back to default it is error 500 again.

    Thread Starter turtlewings

    (@turtlewings)

    Went in and changed all permissions back to how they where and now it works, but without pretty permalinks, which i wanted to have easier links and run the plug WP Hive Warning.

    Do you have any idea what I can do to make this work?

    What kind of server are you running on? linux or windows? (unix or IIS)

    What program are you using to create the htaccess file?

    I was using textedit on a mac, and had the same problem – turned out most wordprocessors add gobbledygook in the file.

    Download a plaintext editor and use that instead, saving as a simple txt type file.

    Hi,

    Reset 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

    Now, check with blog posts and pages.

    Thanks,

    Shane G.

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