Permalinks Only Work On "Plain" Setting

  • For a still undetermined reason, all of my permalinks broke, resulting in a “too many redirects” error. I set the permalinks setting from “Post Name” to “Plain”, which allowed access to my pages, however, this means that all bookmarks and every link I previously sent to a “Post Name” url is still broken.

    Rather than resetting all of the links to a “Plain” url, I would like to fix the permalinks.

    I cannot find a .htaccess file in FileZilla even after selecting the “show hidden files” option. This leads me to believe that the file does not exist and is not being generated by WordPress when I select a new permalink structure.

    I have been unable to upload a new .htaccess file via FTP as the dotfile name is prohibited. Can anyone assist?

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  • Hi RAFBE2,

    There doesn’t necessarily need to be a .htaccess file accessible to your user account – it’s dependent on your hosts configuration. This type of permalink problem is caused by the Apache server having a setting called “AllowOverride” being set to none. WordPress tries to write to the .htaccess file to make the other permalink styles work, but since Apache is configured not to allow overrides (.htaccess files) – it won’t change anything.

    There are a few possibilities on where it’s getting hung up, but the most likely is that your host will need to add the following to one of their apache configuration files:

    <Directory “/var/www/yoursite/directories/public_html”>
    AllowOverride All
    </Directory>

    If they can’t or won’t help you resolve the problem, let me know and I’ll see what else I can do to help you out.

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