blueklein76

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  • Hello macgiver,

    I used the rewrite.script from the niallflynn site without any changes. If you’re using a text editor, make sure the line endings are set to unix. If you’re uploading the script with FTP then make sure you are in binary mode (not ascii). It needs to go into the web site’s root directory – in the same place as index.php.

    After that it just worked for me, but only after a while. Errors were still returned for pages that I’d already tried to visit, so test it out on some different pages. After some time all the pages were then ok.

    Well a big thank you to thestealthyfox for pursuading me to go back and try this again. I also now have permalinks working (without the index.php!) using the above script from Niall Flynn.

    It still wasn’t easy though. I’m on a Mac so (in theory) my line endings are Unix by default, but I forced the line endings to Unix anyway.

    After uploading as rewrite.script, I tried a permalink, and – 404 page not found. Tried re-saving the permalink settings, refresh, 404 page not found. Tried re-applying my theme, refresh, 404 page not found. Cleared the browser cache, refresh, 404 page not found.

    Finally in desperation I tried a different permalink – and it worked! Hmm. So I went back to the previous permalink and added a short query string on the end along the lines of “?nocache=1” – and then it too sprang into life.

    So I can only guess that Namesco might be using a caching layer that includes the caching of 404 errors. Then if you’ve already tried your permalinks out before adding the rewrite.script it carries on (for a while at least) serving up the old errors. My page edits are showing up fine though so who knows.

    Anyway, thanks again!

    I’m having the exact same problem. The final comment here suggests that Namesco requires us to keep the index.php part:
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/permalinks-does-not-work-1
    But that’s not acceptable for me.

    If you hear something useful back from Namesco support please post it, but I’m now looking for a new hosting provider.

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