• I tried to set up a page under a parent page and after I chose the parent page and published it I got this error while tryint to acces it : Invalid File ID or File Name. I wanted to have something like this : domanin.com/parent page/page and after publishing it gave me that error.

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  • Did you amend the page permalink?

    Thread Starter zaone

    (@zaone)

    Yes I did, but it still doesn`t work.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    I meant did you originally amend the permalink before publishing the page?

    Thread Starter zaone

    (@zaone)

    Well the original permalink was domani.com/page1 and after adding the page under a parent it became domain.com/parent/page1 and that is where i got the error. Even when accessing domain.com/parent/page1 from the WordPress control panel.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    Try resetting your custom permalinks back to the default setting. If that works, then set your custom permalink structure back up again.

    Thread Starter zaone

    (@zaone)

    Hmm but won`t that affect people that come to my site to certain pages? And if I switch it back will everything come back to normal?
    Hmm it looks like this problem occurs only when i try to add a certain page as parent. If i try to add a different page as parent everything is fine.
    And I`ve figured out the problem. The links are case sensitive, for example is I write the page names with capital letters the permalinks have small letters and it only works if I use capital letters in the links, how can i do that?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    won`t that affect people that come to my site to certain pages?

    Not if you set your custom permalink structure back up again once the problem has been resolved.

    I write the page names with capital letters the permalinks have small letters

    That’s normal WP behaviour.

    it only works if I use capital letters in the links

    Definitely sounds like a permalink problem. I’d suggest not only resetting the custom permalinks to the default settings but deleting/renaming your WP root .htaccess file as well.

    Thread Starter zaone

    (@zaone)

    Resetting the permalinks to their default setting is out of the question because I have a lot of people coming from links posted on other sites that go to specific pages, so I cant do that. Wont deleting the .htaccess file make my page unavailable?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    so I cant do that.

    It will be a 5 minute change at most.

    Thread Starter zaone

    (@zaone)

    Tried resetting the settings and that didn’t work, what next?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    it looks like this problem occurs only when i try to add a certain page as parent.

    Perhaps the problem is within the parent page. Is there anything that makes this page different from the others?

    Thread Starter zaone

    (@zaone)

    Not really, it’s a page named Download, and I want to add it as a parent for another one. I really have no idea why only that page causes this… and it’s case sensitive, again, the only one.
    If I add other pages as parent everything works fine. I tried deleting it and adding it again, no chance, nothing works..
    And on top of this I did a test today : added a page test and added that as a parent for page test 1 and everything worked fine.. why the Download page won’t allow this is beyond me ..
    I tried deleting the pages and adding them with lower case letters, again, this did not work..

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