Chocolate-Covered Katie

Thanks wpismypuppet!

I think you might be right; that it’s now a cache thing… the only post people have reported lately as a 404 is this one:

https://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/2011/12/05/deep-dish-cinnamon-roll-pie/

Can you (or anyone reading this) see that post in Google Chrome?

Ok, I tried the permalinks and plugins suggestions… no luck.

But it seems like the ONLY people who are getting the 404 error message are people using google chrome.

I’m not sure why this is… does anyone have any ideas??

I did recently upgrade wordpress… but just to the 3.1 version. And yes, the trouble started after I updated. (I haven’t updated to the 3.3.1 yet.)

I also did do the flush rewrite for the permalinks a few days ago, and unfortunately it didn’t fix the issue. But my permalinks are set to “day and name” not custom. I’ll try setting them to the default… Not to sound naive, but what’s the benefit of having them not set to default? (In other words, why doesn’t everyone just go with the default? Will it be bad for my site to change it to default and then just leave it that way?)

Sorry for all the questions!

I just talked to my host provider, and they say I’m all on one server. Still no clue what could be going wrong :-/

Unfortunately, I’ve asked them this repeatedly. They don’t know ??

They usually can see the page links I send (such as this hot cocoa one). Only once were they able to reproduce the 404 message, and then the next day they could see it again!

I will ask them if they’re spreading my content over multiple servers, though. They tell me that I’m within my limit for my server package (in other words, that I don’t need to upgrade). But I’m wondering if maybe they’re wrong?? Do you know anything about how much a person ought to be paying per month for server space based on traffic? Right now I’m paying around $90… maybe I really DO need a better package?

Once again, I am so sorry I’m not more knowledgeable about any of this. I feel like I’m in over my head… I started out as a blogger who knew nothing about computers, and I’m trying to learn as quickly as possible. Hopefully someday I’ll know enough to be able to help others on this forum, because I am SO appreciative that you’re taking the time to help me!

Apparently one of the technicians at Servint tried repairing my database on the 14th (after I first started having the problem a few days before). It didn’t help ??

Hi again,

I just wanted to check before I did anything, because I am NOT knowledgeable when it comes to computers. I don’t want to mess anything up… :-/

I found the php myadmin page. Am I supposed to check ALL the tables and then press “repair tables”?
Also, will this make my site go down temporarily? (In other words, should I do this late at night? Right now I’m getting around 9,000 visitors per hour, so I don’t want the site to go down.)

So sorry for all the questions!

Hey Jan,

Thanks so much for replying! I just checked, and my dashboard DOES say that the post’s status is published.

My server is VPS (with Servint). They did change my caching plugin from supercache to w3tc one day when the traffic was overloading the server. But that was almost four months ago.

The really odd thing is that people who can’t see certain pages one day will check again the next day and suddenly see it.

*Sigh*

Still didn’t work! I deactivated them all… and people still were reporting the 404 errors. I’m at a loss as to what to do. I feel like my site is going to be broken forever ??

Sadly, it didn’t work.

Unless maybe it takes some time for the changes to go into effect?

Oh wow, too funny that we know each other!! ?? ??

Kathryn, I can’t even tell you how much it means that you’re taking the time to help me. It’s so frustrating, and my host (Servint) says they have no clue what’s wrong. (I’ve actually been upgraded THREE times in the last two months, because my blog’s outgrown the server package.)

In any case, I just deactivated that stats plugin and reset the permalinks. Now I’m just waiting on a reply, from a few of the people who said the post wouldn’t load for them, to see if they can load the page now.