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

I got in touch with my hosting provider and they said they didn’t do anything that would prevent a script modifying htaccess files. This is a curly one isn’t it!

I followed your instructions, macmanx and it worked but it’s a painful work around to have to turn off permalinks, create a page, turn on permalinks, update .htaccess whenever you want to create a new page. I tested making a new page after going through that series and got a 404 again which means you do have to do it every time.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a fix? I can live with a workaround but I’d rather not have to.

Another bit of information to add to this is that once you have gone through that series of steps, you can edit your new page fine in terms of content but if you try and edit the page slug, you go back to a 404 error again. This has to be permalinks related?? I’m adding a permalinks tag to this post to see if anything surfing around in that area has some more ideas.

And I did make the changes to my wp-includes/vars.php file as outlined in the codex which also did not fix it. (https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Permalinks#Fixing_.28.htaccess.29_Generation_Issues)