Permalinks aren’t working

check your .htaccess to be 777

Thanks for the tip, but it’s already 777.

WordPress is writing to the file successfully.

According to GoDaddy regarding this issue:

“Mod_rewrite is currently enabled in all shared Linux hosting accounts. The rest of the functions you have included may be enabled by using a .htaccess file. Unfortunately we cannot assist you with or coding this file.”

What they mean by the rest of the functions is that I requested they check that

– The FollowSymLinks option enabled
– FileInfo directives allowed (e.g. AllowOverride FileInfo or
AllowOverride All)

I’m not sure how to do this exactly as most of my web programming experience has been with Windows.

I gave it a stab and changed my .htaccess file to be as follows:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Options +FollowSymlinks
AllowOverride All

But, that didn’t work. I still can’t access any permalinks.

This is really driving my nuts!

Delete your .htaccess.
De-activate all your plugins, in case one is interfering.
Try resaving the Permalinks to the ‘month and name’ (WordPress should generate a new .htaccess).

Any joy?

Thanks alism; however, it’s still a no go.

I deleted my .htaccess, deactived all my plugins (there are only four) and even set my theme to the default. I then set permalinks to month and name, which generated the below text. When I then attempted to access a page or post, I got a 404 ??

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

To note, I tried all other permalink structures and none of them work.

So, no joy… but I appreciate your help. Any other ideas out there?

Ok, try adding this to the very top of your .htaccess then:

<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
 </Directory>

You’ll proberly want to use + with the symlinks option..

Options +FollowSymLinks

Place it before the WordPress stuff though..

I was really hoping that it was going to work, but no go. This is what .htaccess looked like after I changed the permalink option:

<Directory />
    Options +FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
 </Directory>

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

But, still, when I go to a page or post it takes me to a 404 error.

Perhaps I’m missing something really obvious here, but I’m rapidly running out of ideas.

Can you check that the .htaccess is actually getting processed? Do you get an internal server error if you type in a load of crap at the start of the file?

From https://zacvineyard.com/blog/2008/10/24/wordpress-godaddy-and-permalinks/

All you need to fix this problem is patience. Every hour (at the top of the hour), GoDaddy refreshes .htaccess file configurations on their servers. After you select the appropriate Permalink structure you’d like your blog to have, you need to wait for GoDaddy’s servers to refresh the .htaccess file configuration. Once this happens, your permalinks (modifed URLS) should be working perfectly.

Ipstenu, genius, wouldn’t have got that in a million!

I had this reeeeealy vague memory of someone saying goDaddy’s hosting had this weird cloud effect. Google to the rescue!

One of the commenters had a slightly different solution:

What finally worked for me was taking the advice of one persons comment to go godaddy host centre and under “Settings” and then “404 Error Behaviour” I selected “Use Homepage” instead of “Use GoDaddy custom page”. Worked right away after that.

Thanks for the tip! I set the permalink’s option in WordPress and went to my GoDaddy control panel and updated the 404 error handling. The links are still going to the 404 page, but it’s the old 404 page… not the homepage. There’s a note saying that it could take up to 30 minutes for the change to take affect.

So, as painful as it may be, I’m going to wait an hour to see if the changes take affect. Meanwhile, I hope traffic diminishes for a bit as I really don’t want people to think the site’s full of dead links.

I’ll keep you updated! Thanks again!

I don’t believe it… BUT IT NOW WORKS!!!!!

Thank you!

Just so everyone knows, our servers are set to no longer use .htaccess caching. These files are now picked up immediately. We’re taking a look at ajtatum’s specific server and will correct any issues we may find.

@ipstenu is a lifesaver!! I have been messing with htaccess and permalink settings, but found this post and tried accessing the godaddy control panel, going to setttings, 404 error handling, and changed the default “godaddy’s 404 error page” to “home page” and viola, everything worked. It did take about 20 minutes for the change to take effect. @gdhosting: c’mon, you guys really need to do a better job of support given how popular wordpress is and that it seems your setup is just quite different from other hosts’. I can say personally that the difficulty with such things has caused me to recommend against GD countless times.

Thanks again @ipstenu!!