permalinks not working after upgrade to 3.1. and 3.1.1

Ugh.. ooookay leaving the computer right now for awhile I’ll get on that this afternoon. Could if have something to do with permissions? chmod?

I don’t think so. WP obviously has access to the file – otherwise you wouldn’t see the:

# BEGIN WordPress

# END WordPress

additions. I’m at a loss to understand why it’s not also adding in the re-write rules. I’m also amazed by its reported size. Are you sure it’s not 236 bytes rather than 236K?

On a related note, where is WordPress installed on the server? In the domain root? Or in a sub-folder?

oh.. heck.. maybe it is 236 bytes.
installed in domain root.
what should the file look like?

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

I have the same problem
I just updated mine from 3.1 to 3.1.2 & the permalinks broke

My .htaccess file is perfect. I’ve deleted it, re-set me permalinks and re-created my .htaccess and it still wont work.

My server is correct also

any ideas?

OH Wow… well i don’t know what all makes that happen, but obviously my file is not being written properly. We now have a new (2and) poster claiming same problem. Are you helping others with similar issues? Should the wordpress folk be contacted? how is that accomplished? and how are you with joomla? ??

could it be some corruption of index.php?

nope – i’ve installed 3.1.2 three times to make sure it wasnt a prob in the upgrade

Are you running a caching plugin, like WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache? This could cause issues.

I should note that those caching plugins are awesome, and would not likely be at fault themselves, however they also need some additional things added to .htaccess to run properly, and if you have a caching plugin installed and have removed your original .htaccess then this could cause an issue.

Nope, I just have WP e-Commerce plugin and even when I disable it, the permalinks are still not working.

it is strange, when I go to look at a product category (https://trendykids.ignitionmedia.info/jeans-bottoms/) it works

When I go to a normal page, i get nothing (404)

the permalinks have gone very weird – im using /%category%/%postname%/

esmi,

this morning i updated to the new 3.1.2 version. I tried disabling plugins and no change. I deleted htaccess again changed the permalink structure to the custome month day i wanted. I checked the htaccess file and was thrilled to find “more” in there.
‘# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress’

Tried to click on an article and … same old 404 message. I’m so frustrated.

If you are still out there please help!

I think you need to go back to your hosts. It really looks like mod_rewrite is not running.

Just a word to let everyone know this issue is resolved. I contacted my host.. Hostgator.. again. I got a tech very familiar with wordpress. He changed my permalink to post name.. and it worked. it seemed that the “month,numb was causing some kind of issue. So while it wasn’t a hosting problem with apache mod_rewrite, my knowledgeable host was able to fix the problem

Thanks to all for their imput, specially esmi! Beclecto.com is back in business!

I’m glad to hear that it’s working now but a little concerned about the “fix”. Apart from the fact that month and day should have worked just fine (which suggest that something isn’t working somewhere), your current permalink structure is just about the worst you can have. See:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/423072
https://ottopress.com/2010/category-in-permalinks-considered-harmful/

If at all possible, I’d suggest that you at least try to use /%post_id%/%postname%/

/%post_id%/%postname%/
Does not work.. getting 404 error message… I guess my jubilation was premature ??