Feydakin

After much strangeness I have figured out WHY it broke, but it makes no sense. In the end I changes the filename from author to writer. And now it works..

So instead of /author/book title I have /writer/book title.

I do not understand why the word author breaks the system, but it dies.. I was able to break it on three different domains..

plugins renamed plugins-old – still not working.

reset the theme to

# 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

# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName leapovercompetition.com
AuthUserFile /home/leapover/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/leapover/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

I had commented out everything except the wordpress block to make sure that nothing else was messing with it..

The site is here with the default theme – leapovercompetition.com

Yes, anything root works fine.. For example

.com/author works great
.com/booktitle works great
.com/author/booktitle returns a 404

This only happens when a page is created with a parent page. Change the parent to none and it works fine.