URLs problem after update to WP 4.0.1

  • Resolved iMon23

    (@imon23)


    10 years ago

    Hi guys,
    yesterday I had my website updated automatically to the newer WP version 4.0.1. Since then no pages are displaying correctly, just the homepage. I get this message for every URL, where “contact” is the page:

    ”
    The requested URL /contact/ was not found on this server.

    Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
    ”

    It seems like an error on the Apache server. I tried to re-update the WP version, updating all the plugins, but seems that nothing has improved. Do you have any idea about? With no working pages the website is unuseful and sadly I don’t have a recent backup ??

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  • Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.ads-software.com Admin

    Visit your Settings->Permalink page and save the settings there. Does that fix the issue?

    Dan Russell

    (@danrussell)

    There is issue with version 4.0.1.
    Wait for 4.0.2 or downgrade manually to 4.0.

    Thread Starter iMon23

    (@imon23)

    Samuel: I tried what you suggest but is not working ??

    Dan: Now I’ll try to downgrade to 4.0, hoping the plugins will not screw up everything. Otherwise I’ll wait for the 4.0.2 hoping that would be a fast release.

    Thanks both for your help!

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.ads-software.com Admin

    Dan, there are no serious issues with 4.0.1, and there are no current plans for a 4.0.2 anytime soon. Please stop posting this misinformation.

    iMon23: Downgrading is not advisable. 4.0.1 is a security release. You need the fixes it contains.

    What is your site’s URL?

    Moderator Marius L. J.

    (@clorith)

    Hi iMon23,

    Please don’t downgrade to 4.0 in this case (you want to keep the security updates from 4.0.1).

    It sounds like you are missing the .htaccess file in your root directory, do you perhaps have FTP access and are able to put up this file manually, alternatively a hosting panel that lets you add files manually?

    If so, you can put the following

    # 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

    in a file named .htaccess in the WordPress folder which should (hopefully) be all you need in this case.

    Thread Starter iMon23

    (@imon23)

    Thank you guys. I fixed it!

    Just to make others know: I tried to downgrade to 4.0, but as stated from you is not a good option. Nothing has gone as expected. So I did what Marius suggest and everything worked smoothly. The .htaccess file was 0 bytes. Now with that script is 233 bytes.

    Thank you a lot Marius, you saved my day! ??

    Do you have any idea why the .htaccess file has gone with the update? I’m just curious.

    PS. I’m gonna put back the manual update eheh

    Hi there

    I had the same problem – I upgraded from 3.9.2 to 4.0.1, at which point my site also stopped working properly – the pages did not display their sidebars and comment sections properly, and my e-commerce page didn’t work at all (and the plug-in crashed the site when I activated it).

    I’m afraid I have also gone back to the previous version, as I needed a working site more than I feared security breaches. How can I make sure the update won’t kill my site?

    Hi – I have just tried updating to 4.0.1 again, but it has crashed my site. No pages are showing – just the banner and the menu tabs.

    This is killing my site – how do I fix it?

    Sorry – this has killed my site.

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