When changing my permalink structure, it has caused broken page links

  • Resolved ja2006

    (@ja2006)


    14 years, 8 months ago

    I was in WordPress Settings, and tried to change my permalink structure to the Month, Name format. When I did this, I then got a message that said I needed to create a .htaccess file and to insert code for a mod_rewrite. I tried creating this in notepad, with the .htacess extension. Notepad wouldn’t allow the extension, so I had to put a “1.htaccess, then uploaded it to my WordPress directory on my server. Immediately after that, my pages disappeared from the navigation links on my blog. I got a file not found message. I took the .htaccess file off of my server again, and then tried to see if the navigation links to my About page would come back. They didn’t. It appears to have something to do with the fact that I changed the permalink structure to the Month, Name format. I am totally clueless as to what to do next, or where to go to link up my navigation files again. My Theme files are not editable (writable). They don’t allow for any changes, so whatever changes I make must be done through the Settings somewhere – I just don’t know what to do. I am using the latest version of WordPress 2.9.2. My theme is a Woo Theme. If anyone has a suggestion as to how I can get my pages to link to the new permalink structure, please let me know. Thank you!

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  • It would help to post a link to the site.

    Thread Starter ja2006

    (@ja2006)

    Here is the link to the blog:
    https://kennedy-warren.org/wordpress/

    This is the error message I am getting when I try to go to any of the comments I have posted, as well as the About page, and the Contact page.

    Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.2.11 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.8.8 Server at kennedy-warren.org Port 80

    Sorry I don’t know much about Apache but if you try to edit those pages in admin and click the link to view the post or page, do they resolve?

    Normally for permalinks to work you do need these lines in the .htaccess file. Assuming your WordPress installation is in a sub-folder called /wordpress, the .htaccess file in that folder should include these lines:

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

# END WordPress
    Thread Starter ja2006

    (@ja2006)

    Okay. I was just reading this on another person’s question, and saw someone had said to include the # BEGIN WordPress, and# END WordPress.

    So you can create the .htaccess file, and upload it to the WordPress folder on the server, with that in it, and then it will allow the peramalink structure to work?

    Thread Starter ja2006

    (@ja2006)

    I just re-created the .htaccess file, and uploaded it, and bingo – the links work now! Thank you so much. There is someone else having this same problem on another question.

    Thread Starter ja2006

    (@ja2006)

    The user’s name is dv-design. Perhaps I will post something on her string, to let her know how to do the .htaccess file.

    I seem to be having a lot of issues today with my blog set-up. I was also trying to install Contact Form 7, and that didn’t work, because my server is missing some libraries for the Captcha images.

    Try the cForms plugin. It’s actually more versatile than Contact Form 7 (IMO).

    Thread Starter ja2006

    (@ja2006)

    OK. That sounds good. I will! Thanks again. I may have used that one once before, too.

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