GoDaddy and mod_rewrite

what do you guys think is the real problem.. is it at godaddy’s end or at W.P’s end.. if its at W.P’s end. is there a patch for the same.?

Was it ever working ?

As Podz asks was it ever working? THe htaccess file isn’t there by default, so I would ask was it working without htaccess, if so and GoDaddy do state that it doesn’t quite work well with them then you’ll have to wait for their fix. For my host the htaccess has never been an issue and has never caused any problems.

The problem is the .htaccess file is trying to parse the php urls.

I thought that’s what it was supposed to do in the case of WP so it’s not a design fault.

actually I didnt enable it initially and it was working perfectly… then I installed… a few plugins… the comment spell checker, spam karma and the no follow plugin and then somehow the .htaccess file was created.
As they stated once I deleted it, its back working now.. guess I shall wait longer to completely import from blogger.

ok try this:

disable all your plugins

add the htaccess files again, ensuring it is writeable by WP without you have to copy and paste anything into it. So it should be completely blank. Update your permalinks and then try to view the site.

You say the htaccess file was somehow created, in which case I would delete it and create a blank notepad page upload that rename it to .htaccess and then do the permalink jig.
If it works, then it could be a plugin issue, if it doesn’t work then I guess it’s a GoDaddy issue though I know several sites that use GoDaddy and permalinks.

hm…thanks a lot… shall try it my friend.

Yea, your .htaccess is messing up the links.

Because if you go straight to the post: https://www.arrogantly.com/?p=1 it works perfectly fine.

I think something is wrong with your permalinks

Go to

https://www.arrogantly.com/wp-admin/options-permalink.php

Are the “Structure” and “Category Base” textfields blank? If not, try clearing them and see if it works… Hope that helps!

Your layout is very nice btw. ??

Go to the Permalinks options page as the above post describes and ensure that you just enter “/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/” without the quotes. Do not enter the word Structure:, which you have looking at the links on your website below:

www.arrogantly.com/Structure:%20/2005/03/20/hello-world/

Regards

Cypher, I’m just curious, even if he changes that, wouldn’t the first link be: https://www.arrogantly.com/2005/03/20/hello-world/ ?

And he still gets that error. I think the host doesn’t allow mod_rewrite. But I’m not sure.

This would be a windows server ?

absolutely right cypher…. absolutely right… my mistake I guess..

and no root.. its a linux server.

as phpprincess say, even with the updated permalinks structure I still cannot acces the first post i.e https://www.arrogantly.com/2005/03/20/hello-world/ but then again now I have deleted the .htaccess file … is it mandatory?

you could simply go with the non-hteaccess method of permalinks which would place the index.php followed by category/postname instead until the fix arrives from GoDaddy. It’s an odd problem, but I think there is a simple solution as it really should work under “typical” conditions.

So delete your htaccess file and use the index.php prefix instead.

thanks jinsan… I think I will wait a little more longer to see what godaddy can come up with..

A few things before we all confuse each other. ??

@phpprincess; Yes, the host has have mod_rewrite capabilities turned on for permalinks to work in the “nice” way.

@injinuity; Without the .htaccess file, the web server is not going to be able to translate the permalinks to it’s respective real links, so you really do need the file.

So for starters, confirm with your host that mod_rewrite is enabled/available. Then you can have WP setup the .htaccess file, or create it yourself and see if things work.

If all else fails, you can definitely use Jinsan’s suggestion and just prefix the permalink structure with index.php.

Regards