Pages not displaying…

I am having a very similar problem. I have installed the new version 2.1.2. The home page comes up okay, but non of the individual articles are visible. Here’s the extact error if you try to find any single article:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

ANY IDEAS WOULD BE APPRECIATED!

If you have 2.1 or above you can create a static frot page in your admin.
admin ->reading ->

As for the 500 error, your about page works, so I don’t know why any other one wouldn’t. Try updating your permalinks and try again.

same problem on my blog. upgrade from 2.0.4 to 2.1.2. I tried to update my permalinks and it doesn’t work.

edit: I found a bug in 2.1.2 WP version.
I fixed problem with permalinks with Options +Followsymlinks in .htaccess file but whenever I go to Options-Permalinks WP destroy my configuration and writes htaccess without this line. So, don’t go to Options – Permalinks and lock your htaccess file so WP can’t change it.

I am having the same exact problem
but i cant follow what mangia said
what do you mean?

Well I will try to be more specific.

I have permalink structure similar like /%postname%/%year%/%month%/%day%/ …. and I modified my .htaccess file to have nice links. But after I upgraded my blog to WP 2.1.2, permalink was like before (the ugly one – blabla?id=xyz ). To fix this you need to log in to your blog, go to Options – Permalinks and to select another permalinks structure. But, after I enter permalinks like /%postname%/%year%/%month%/%day%/ and click Update, nothings happened. After some investigation, I found that .htaccess was updated by WordPress but without “Options +Followsymlinks”. I added this inside and everything is OK.

Few minutes later I clicked to Permalinks in control panel and .htaccess was destroyed again. (line “Options +Followsymlinks” was missing.) So, change permissions or don’t go to permalinks again.

I hope you understand me. It is to late and my English is not so good in 4:00 in the morning… ??

OK – I am not good at this –

I just upgraded to 2.1.2 also –

After the ‘upgrade’ yada yada yada………

When I went to the web site https://www.eicexclusive.com – I received the ‘Browser generated error) Page cannot be found.

Well, this sort of sucked – my entire site is ‘PAGES’ –

I went to the Dashborad, Options , permalinks –
Set it the ‘default’ and saved.

After that – the only Page that displayed was ‘my Post’ – I only have the one ‘default post’.
Now when I went to the web site – the ‘default post’ was displayed as my ‘intro/first page.

To access my Home page –
I had to click on it from the left side bar menu –

BUT – none of the other pages would display – I just got the – The page cannot be found – error.

So I went back to Dashboard, Options, Home Page Control –
I use the Filosofo Home-Page Plugin –

I reset and resaved my home page setting –
This did not correct the problem –

And when I was viewing the web site –and I clicked on any of the other ‘pages’ –
(the actual links to them in the left side panel (in the contents area (renamed to Directory for my clients web site)) – Anyway – when I clicked on any of them –
I still got the browser generated error – The page cannot be found –

When I went to the Dashboard, Manage, Pages –
All of my pages are still there –
I click/select any of them and they are displayed in the editor –
BUT the ‘Preview area says – The page cannot be found –

So I went to Dashboard, Options, Permalinks – it was still Set to ‘default’ –

BUT – My Home page was still actually my ‘Default Post’ (the only Post that I have – which i do not even use)

But – NOW the other pages are displayed as normal – click on the link and the page displays.

My solution to the ‘problem’:

In my case I:
Went to the dahboard –
Went to Manage Pages –
Found my ‘Home Page’ –
Clicked on Edit –
When it was fully displayed –
I opened the HTML (Source) and copied everything –

Then:

I Went to Manage Posts –

I only have one Post –
I clicked on Edit –
When the Post was fully loaded –
I clicked on the HTML (Source) –
After it was fully displayed –
I cleared/cut all of the original data/info –
I then pasted my ‘Home Page’ info into the Post –
I saved it and the web site works OK –

In reading the previous post, my understanding of the ‘Pages’ not being found/displayed is related to a problem with the – .htaccess – file.

I (like others) do not know what to do to make my site work (until the problem is resolved through a possible bug
I agree that there is something ‘not right’ but at least this works for me –

I did use the Permalinks –
Before doing the copy paste from Home Page to Post –

And yes – my ‘home page’ was actually my ‘Post’ – NOT the Home page that I had set up using the Filosofo Home-Page Control plugin.

And I went through the permalinks routine again After I did the copy paste –

The web site still functioned OK for my application.

Hope this helps! Chuck

Hi,

When static pages were not working after upgrading this helped me:

Either copy the old file ( cp .htaccess{,.bak} ) and fill it with the output shown in the dashboard (options->permalinks), or make your .htaccess file writeable by your webserver (crude way: chmod o+w $WORDPRESSROOT/.htaccess ).

Cheers,

Otto

I believe I was having a similar error. So I opened my .htaccess file on my server (not a local copy) and found the following:

ErrorDocument 403 /errordocs/error403.html
ErrorDocument 404 /errordocs/error404.html
ErrorDocument 500 /errordocs/error500.html# BEGIN WordPress

# END WordPress

And what appeared to be happening is that WordPress would add “# BEGIN WordPress # END WordPress” at the tail end of line 3 (which was my customized error doc paths).

So, I simply changed the file like so:

ErrorDocument 403 /errordocs/error403.html
ErrorDocument 404 /errordocs/error404.html
ErrorDocument 500 /errordocs/error500.html

# BEGIN WordPress

# END WordPress

..and I ran several tests and it appears to no longer give me the 500 error when I try to add or edit a “page” I created.

No… I’m unsure why this would fix it, but it has so far worked for me.