Permalink prob: Redirecting or broken link

deactivate the plugin
delete .htaccess in wordpress root
set permalinks to default
admin – settings – permalinks
test site
should be working
now set permalinks to desired option

Thanks Samboll. Still having problems though.

1) I deactivated the plugin.
2) Tried to find .htaccess and it isn’t there from what I can tell. I followed the instructions on how to view hidden files using Filezilla here. I still don’t see .htaccess
3) Changed permalinks to default and it now links all of my posts to the “About author.” If you visit the blog and click on a post you can see what I mean.

I really appreciate your help.

It doesn’t load completely, but the source shows an enormous amount of junk caused by pasting from MS Word. That has nothing to do with permalinks, but I still think that you need to know that that causes problems too.

Thanks Gangleri. I will let the writer know about that.

I thought I could fix this permalink problem with relative ease (I read the .htaccess could be problem before posting here, but still can’t see it in the root). I don’t know if it’s just me or if others have the same issue when upgrading?

Anyone have any ideas about the permalink problem I have? Why can’t I see .htaccess?

Hi,
Can you see .htaccess in the host’s file manager? We really need one.
If not – open notepad or similar (no rich text editor) save it as .htaccess (you may have to save it with .txt – just rename it to just .htaccess with ftp client) and upload it
chmod 666
try setting permalinks
if works chmod back to 644 for security

Also, Gangleri is correct – you need to fix the posts before it borks your layout and other stuff.

Thanks again everyone. Samboll: I tried to upload an .htaccess file through filezilla and my server rejects it saying “Critical error”

When I upload a .txt and try to rename it on the server side, it says
“Permission denied on server. You are restricted to your account.”

I’m hosted through Yahoo small business, so I assume it’s a permissions thing related to that? Do you know a work-around? Any other ideas.

Again, thanks. I’m lost without help here.

you will need to speak with yahoo about that – tell them you have to have that .htaccess

I’d like to thank everyone here again. I’ve spent a lot of time working (with limited programming skills) and diagnosed the problem was

1) The theme has a problem with permalinks. I change it and it works fine. Now I’m trying to figure out where to go within the theme to update it so that links work.

2) The author who writes post on this page did it all in MS Word (as mentioned above) and it copied too much garbage, stopping it from loading in IE. When I deactivated a few posts the page now loads in IE.

So thanks again. I’m off to figure out where to modify links so clicking on a posts’s title will take me to that post rather than one of my “pages.”

Cheers.

just have to say you saved my life today….something went wrong with my site, was getting 500 errors, and followed your instructions on resetting the htaccess file and it’s back…THANK YOU!