My .htaccess is 666, I created a new page and getting 404

Really need help, folks.

Having the exactly the same problem but I have the latest version of WP running so any advice would be great.

1. Which version exactly of WP ?

2. Did you run upgrade.php then redo the permalinks ?

Hi

1. I’m using WP 1.5
2. I don’t believe so. I enabled the permalinks via the wp-admin and pasted the code generated by that into the .htacess file to get it going.

I have since made double sure my .htaccess file is 666 as someone said that was the problem elsewhere in the forum.

Thanks!

Re-edit a page.
Save it
Then check.

– Re-edited a page created before I enabled permalinks and that works fine.
– Creating a new page results in the 404 and also trying to subsequently edit that new page also delivers a 404.

Permalinks related I guess?

Are you absolutely certain your .htaccess is 666 ?

Try this:
Login
Go to permalinks
empty the structure box
click update
DELETE your .htaccess file
go to the blog, press ctrl and f5, click on a post
Is the url of the /?p= variety ? It should be.
Open notepad
press SPACE once
save as ‘htaccess.txt’
Upload to where the old .htaccess was
CHMOD to 666 (be very sure on this)
Go to permalinks
Redo the structure
Click Update
Check the posts are NOT of the /?p= variety

Make a new page.

Follow this exactly
If this fails I suggest sharing your login with someone who can fix it.
Also post precise steps as to how it fails.

Okey dokey!

Followed instructions to the letter with great success to ‘save as htaccess.txt’.

Little confusion at the upload step. Did you mean upload with filename htaccess.txt or to rename to .htaccess?

In any case, I tried both.

BTW, I am using ‘Fetch’ as my FTP client on Mac OSX and use it to set the permissions. I have definitly ticked the boxes that make it chmod 666. It says it!

1. Uploaded htaccess and renamed to .htaccess as before and got a 500 internal server error when ‘clicking update’ after redoing the structure

Thinking I did not follow steps to the letter…

2. Uploaded htaccess.txt and ‘clicked update’ after redoing the structure which gave me the ‘if your .htaccess page was writeable…etc.etc’ page and the code I needed to ‘cut and paste’. If I do not cut and paste going to any post gives me a 404 (outside the theme design as well, the 404’s for the pages were in the theme design).

I know this looks like an access problem with chmod666 on my htaccess file but the damn thing says it is 666!

Thanks for the very speedy replies podz.

Try increasing the chmod to 755 / 766 / 777 abd see what works. If it’s only 777 that works, yell at your host as that is unsafe.

I’ve tried it all the way up to chmod 777. Same problem.

I’d put it down to something weird going on with my site but it seems that other people are having this problem too.

Any other ideas? I’m stumped.

Same deal as kmcdou, here.

Great! It’s not a figment of my imagination after all!!! Any other ideas? This is proving to be a real blocker!

Your hosting provider may not allow scripts to modify .htaccess files. This is a rather extreme security measure, but it is used by some providers. I recommend that you ask your hosting provider about this.

I have access to my .htaccess through FTP.

Is there a way for me to manually adjust it so that WP will work for newly created pages?

Strangely enough, OLDER pages I created months ago work fine.

This is what makes me think that maybe it’s NOT an .htaccess issue.

Yes, but your host could choose to deny WP write access to .htaccess at any time. As for manually editing .htaccess, first CHMOD .htaccess to 644, then create the page you want, proceed to Options/Permalinks, and update your permalink structure (you don’t have to change the structure, just hit the update button). You will then be presented with a long list of rewrite rules to copy/paste to your .htaccess file.