purpleone

sorry for the late reply. i had to contact my hosting and they took a long time to verify that everything was fine on their end. this caused me some cosiderable downtime and i could not try out the solution meanwhile.

@shannon thats a really good solution but nothing seems to work. ?? not even the .htaccess above :((

yes, the URL’s are exactly that! When i change the permalinks through “settings” on the wp dashboard and click on the save button, i am redirected to the root directory ( i see only the index of the server every time i click on any update or save button). The changes are not saved ??

there is only one .htaccess that is in the root directory. the wordpress site is in the “wordpress” sub-directory, and i am not able to see .htaccess here :/
any ideas? i am racking my brain here but still nothing ??

now i am able to install wordpress but the dashboard doesnt work. again, every link redirects to the root.

i am using Cpanel with very limited access via shell. Also, oddly there is no softaculous or fantastic installation script :/

.htaccess contains the following

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

# END WordPress

the server has been updated with PHP version 5.63 and MySQL version 5.5.42. But the problem is still present ?? i tried clearing browser cache and cookies
but that isnt the solution.
Also i set up wordpress under a new directory but the same problem occurs in this directory too. i installed a non-wp site under a new directory but that seems to work fine