mcleodjeff

Anybody still read this thread? I’m hoping someone has an idea!

-Jeff

I’ve played with the permalinks as much as I can. I’ve gone back to defaults, no luck. So I changed the structures a few different ways. Still no luck.

I’ve tried changing the slug right from inside the post. I’ve created new posts. None of this has helped so far.

Any other suggestions?
-Jeff

What do yo mean by ‘renaming your WP .htaccess file’. You’ll have to excuse me, I just learnt about this file yesterday.

-Jeff

Yup, I did. Any now I’ve gone into the .htaccess to make sure it has the right settings. It was 644 but now it’s 666. Made sure it has:

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

# END WordPress

But now, about half of the pages in the admin area aren’t accessible. I can access/edit pages and posts, but I can’t go to the categories page, the tags page, the plugins page, and I imagine a bunch more (but I’m not sure).

I’m getting nervous!
-Jeff

I am facing the exact same problem. I was upgrading from 2.6 to 3.1.1 and faced that problem. I figured it was because of the big jump. So now I’m upgrading incrementally. I upgraded to 2.7 and had the exact same problem!

I have tried several different permalink settings (custom, default, different custom, etc) but it didn’t make a difference.

Any other ideas?

-Jeff

Ok, so I reverted to my backups and everything was working just fine on 2.6 again. So I tried the incremental upgrade strategy and moved up to 2.7. I immediately experienced the exact same problem. On the main page (blog) the content is there. But once I click through to the individual post I get a 404.

Any ideas?

-Jeff

Ahh crap! I didn’t even see that. I just followed steps 1-14.

OK, so I have a backup of the database and a copy of the files on the site. Should I restore those then go back and upgrade incrementally from there?

-Jeff

ps: thanks for pointing that out!