Permalins (htaccess?) problem.

  • I had been using WordPress default ‘Ugly’ permalinks fine for 18 months. I recently changed my permalinks to /%postname%%/ and have been getting Internal Server Error 500 messages since.
    I have searched through the forums and have tried uploading a blank .htacess file and can then access my home page and admin but as soon as I click on any links I get the errors again until I upload another blank .htaccess file.
    I have got to my permalinks panel in the admin and managed to change the permalinks to the more standard example.com/year/month/day/postname format. This still gives 500 page errors and now I can’t even save any alterations to the permalink settings. WordPress seems to have modification access to my .htaccess file as after the site crashes it does contain the following;

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

# END WordPress

    rather than just the blank file I upload.

    Any help will be much appreciated but I can’t reply just yet as I’ve been at this for 8 hours now and I can barely see to type!

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  • Hi

    Just to double check….

    You wrote that you had set your permalinks to /%postname%%/

    Is that ‘%%’ double percent sign at the right a typo or is that what you set it to? because that is wrong

    /%postname%/ is correct. If you have it doubled up, change it.

    The htaccess code you are seeing is the standard htaccess code that WP writes.

    Thread Starter thingymajig

    (@thingymajig)

    no double % was a typo – I was desperate for sleep at the time of writing!

    Permalink was /%postname%/

    Like I said above though, I have managerd to get it to change to example.com/year/month/day/post-name

    (sorry, the syntax probably isn’t quite right above but I can’t upload a blank .htaccess file from work so I can’t get into the admin to view the correct syntax)

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