Permalinks Not Working – Please Help

  • I don’t understand what the hell I am doing wrong here. This is the fourth website of mine this has happened to, the other times I had to pay somebody to fix it for me but now I just want to learn what I’m doing wrong and how to fix it myself.

    The problem: When I click on a post title on my homepage (blog is installed directly on the home site), instead of displaying only that single post, it merely refreshed the page and displays all posts. So, should somebody read one of my posts and want to link to it, the direct link would bring up all posts instead of that single one.

    Another problem this creates is when you click on “comments” to read/write a comment, it does the same thing: refreshes the homepage rather than just bringing you to the single post.

    Other things to note: In the past, I suspected this happened when I changed the permalink structure. Often I would create a blog and then forget at first to use the “pretty urls” so then I would go back in and change it, soon after I noticed the problem.

    However, this is a brand new blog. I changed the permalink structure before I ever posted on it.

    Another problem I had with other blogs was that the RSS feed also somehow got messed up along with the permalinks. Same deal this time.

    I had posted for help here months ago when I first began having these issues only to get a reply about checking my htaccess file. Okay. But WHAT am I looking for specifically?

    I’m not familiar with modifying such things, I don’t know what to look for, but I know that if somebody could give me more of an idea what is normal, what isn’t normal for htaccess, and hopefully a step-by-step resolution…I am confident that I could fix it myself. I just need to know WHY this is happening?!

    So frustrated! Please help!

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  • Well, the OP is gone for the last day or so…

    Thread Starter briggszilla

    (@briggszilla)

    I’m here! Thank you thank you very much for sticking around here and discussing this. I’m going to go through all of this and let you know what happens next.

    Thread Starter briggszilla

    (@briggszilla)

    Okay here we go.

    moshu – “Does your server/host have all the requirements for Using_Permalinks?” – I would imagine so, I have a few other blogs hosted with the same service (ex: AllerJeez.com) and the person who fixed it before was able to somehow. So I suppose my answer to this is yes, right?

    Gangleri – “Hm, a nice suggestion here.” – very interesting, looks like the did have the same problem! However, WP on celebriteasing.com is installed directly on the root of the site. I did however go into my WP options to check if the address was right, and it was. For kicks, I even added www in front of celebriteasing.com, tested it, still nothing.

    And yes, AllerJeez.com is one of the blogs this happened to before, however I had somebody else fix it for me.

    justinratwebtek – “If it was a single.php issue…” – This is actually the very first thing I did when this happened months ago on my AllerJeez blog. Didn’t resolve anything, and I’m assuming it wouldn’t do any good in this case either.

    I have not touched my .htaccess file. I know nothing about it so I’ve left it alone.

    whooami – “Paste what is inside your .htaccess here:” – The page wouldn’t come up for me. I don’t even know what “no www” is, but I know that I don’t have a plugin for it. It’s a brand new blog and I’ve only installed 2 plugins (one of which I’m not even using yet).

    “STILL havent pasted the contents of your htaccess anywhere.” – here you go:

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

    # END WordPress

    Thread Starter briggszilla

    (@briggszilla)

    Bump?

    Actually, I had a client this weekend that emailed me with the exact situation. We thought it was the htaccess as well.

    It was actually a plugin: Permalinks plugin

    If you’re using it, deactivate and try everything out.

    Thread Starter briggszilla

    (@briggszilla)

    The only plugins I have are:

    Akismet – activated
    flickrRSS – deactivated
    Gravatar – activated
    Hello Dolly – deactivated
    WP Database Backup – activated

    The only ones I had in common on other sites this happened to were Akismet and WP Database…so if a plugin is the culprit it has to be one of those two…

    Thread Starter briggszilla

    (@briggszilla)

    Well, it appears as though changing the permalink structure to default solved the problem. Which is strange, because during the summer when AllerJeez had this problem, that was the first thing I tried to do to fix it. Hmmm.

    Though I am relieved that it’s now working properly, I’m also disappointed that this was the problem, since I wanted the pretty urls for SEO purposes. What to do now? Perhaps this has something to do with my hosting/server as moshu suggested way above? Unless anybody has any other ideas, maybe I’ll take up an account with another hosting company.

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