HT ACCESS: Can you take a peak at mine? Not working

  • Good Morning,

    I have my index.php sitting out of the WP folder and I have my .htaccess sitting in my server root.

    This (I think) causes my .htaccess file not to work. Where should the .htaccess file site for my set-up? It automatically writes to server root it I update permalinks.

    This is my file: https://www.bedingfield.org.uk/htaccess.txt

    Could you have a look and see if anything is wrong?

    Thanks
    Karl

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    The .htaccess file needs to be in the same directory as WordPress’ index.php file.

    Thread Starter karlb

    (@karlb)

    yeah thats where it is ??

    So did you see anything wrong with my file?
    This is where my index is pointing:

    ‘<?php
    /* Short and sweet */
    define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);
    require(‘./news/wp-blog-header.php’);
    ?>’

    Thanks

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    The file looks fine. Does your hosting provider have mod_rewrite enabled?

    Thread Starter karlb

    (@karlb)

    Yeah. Its works. I deleted the file and then updated permamlinks and the file wrote to root just fine.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    So, do your permalinks work now?

    have you seen this?
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Permalinks

    scroll to the bottom. it shows another handler that needs to be se to allowed on your server.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    AllowOveride is a basic Apache function that should enabled on all servers. If your hosting provider has disabled it, find a new hosting provider ASAP.

    Thread Starter karlb

    (@karlb)

    ‘So, do your permalinks work now?’

    No they don’t this is so stressful ?? What on earth could be causing it?

    AllowOveride is enabled.

    So, let me see if I understand. Your index.php and .htaccess is in your root, but the rest of your wp installation is in news? Even though your index is in the same directory as your .htaccess, won’t wp be looing for your .htaccess in the wp install dir?

    Thread Starter karlb

    (@karlb)

    well I thought that too and put a copy in wp but still same errors.

    Actually when I click update permamlinks the htaccess is always written to root where I have the index and not the wp folder.

    Literally pulling hair out over this one!

    Any fuerhter suggestions greatly appreciated.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Does your host support the use of .htaccess? (believe it or not, some don’t)

    Thread Starter karlb

    (@karlb)

    Sure does. They worked effortlessly with 1.2 but with 1.5 .htaccess just does not work.

    My host assures my everything is fine with rewrite and.htaccess.

    I can only think it is an issue with 1.5.

    Thanks

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    The only known issues are viewable here:

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Permalinks#Fixing_Permalink_Problems

    Thread Starter karlb

    (@karlb)

    yeah I have already read that. Maybe a fresh install might fix something.

    Thanks

    Hello!! Just been working on the same type of problem with a new install. I am the host and was having probelms with it but turns out that the key thing was not using the %category% tag, which according to one of the hidden middle paragraphs of the codex isn’t supported below Apache 2. Hey Presto!Myserver is running Apache 1.3.33 Now the permalinks have started to work, having removed the %category% tag, leaving it just to /%author%/%postname%/

    Maybe this will help you.

    Matthew

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