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Can you access Cpanel on your server?
What was the old URL?
Do you still have FTP access?
Do you know your site’s IP address?
Do you use PHPMyAdmin?

Are you sure your server isn’t down?

Different ways to fix this depending on how you can access stuff.

Sundae, Sunday, Sun day, Son day, Sun delay?

Here is a VERY BASIC .htaccess

# BEGIN WordPress

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

# END WordPress

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I can only tell you what I did.

I created a new user (with admin privileges) and as username I entered a long string created by the password generator in wp-security plugin.
I then deleted the admin user.

If you do this write down and TRIPLE CHECK your new admininistrator username because there is no way you’ll remember it.
Highly unlikely a hacker will ever guess your username this way.

Also wp-security will remove the META generated by WordPress ver. #.#.# tag in your code. So don’t panic if you notice “something missing” from your code.
It does this to slow down hackers. They can’t just “view source” and see your WordPress version.

Whistle while you work!

Did you do Step 8? You have to if you have any static pages.

After you have enabled the plugin, look for the file “wp-content/cache/.htaccess”. If it’s not there you must create it. It should read:

AddEncoding x-gzip .gz
AddType text/html .gz

The beasts & the children are free!

Did you notice that the pages you can get to are in this format:
https://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2005/12/15/winter_sunset

And the pages you cannot get to are in this format:
https://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/about/

So somewhere you have dates enabled, but they were not applied to all pages. Did you switch settings in WP when this problem occurred?

Although I will see what I can find, a Moderator’s perspective would definitely be helpful here. Otto42 are you there?

Please don’t say “Just reinstall everything”. We know that is an option, but we are trying to learn as well.

I’m off to see the wizard! The wonderful wizard of awes!

Thanks for the list, it helps.
It would be helpful if you included links to your site.

Don’t forget that disabling a plugin does not necessarily undo changes it may have made to your code.
You need to update plugins and themes to have the old stuff rewritten. But even then they may still leave crap behind, it’s a start though.

Once again, assuming your site URLs are correct, and settings are correct and that you don’t have different folders than the defaults, than post some of your code for pages that don’t display.

You could also check for nested folders, there is a plugin for this.

Error messages don’t always point out WHERE the error occurred, sometimes they may display another line that is affected by the error. I’m not sure if WP debug does this.

I found that conflicting settings in some SEO plugins created the missing pages problem. Have you been using All In One SEO or something similar?

BTW – All In One SEO works great, unless the settings are wrong (go figure).

The 404 page is only displayed if the requested page does not exist.

Are you trying to ask “Why is something displayed no matter what I enter?”

I just checked your site, I understand your problem now.
I will see what I can find.

I am Canadian

Try this plugin

Happy Day’s are here again!

Hmm, perplexing.

I do have one (or two) obvious question(s) though.

Did you update your site in the past, from 2.1 > 2.6 or anything similar?
If so did you delete your old WP files first?

If not than the only places “deprecated” error messages could be coming from is plugins or themes.
Using old plugins/themes?

This assumes of course, that your server is using the correct versions of Apache/MySQL and that your database is not corrupt.

If you are using Firefox than I would highly suggest getting the Web Developer Add On.

It is extremely useful for all sorts of website checks, including a link checker. There is also an option that will display the full path of links, images etc. It also has stuff for cookies, css, forms, information, miscellaneous, outline (objects on page), resize, tools (link checker in here), view source or generated source, and various validation checkers.

I’m not sure if this available for IE.

Three fried chickens and a Coke please!
Oh, and dry white toast for my friend.

All it does is check to see if you have mod_rewrite installed, if so it is applied to the way Apache operates, if not, it does nothing.

It gets kind of detailed, so it would be better if you searched for mod_rewrite/Apache to get a proper description.

mod_rewrite

mod_rewrite is an extension module of the Apache web server software which allows for “rewriting” of URLs on-the-fly. Rewrite rules use regular expressions to parse the requested URL from the client, and translate it into a different URL before interpretation.

WordPress uses mod_rewrite for its permalink structure, which is optional functionality.

Related articles: Using Permalinks

It is a default .htaccess found in many WP sites.

I am having similar problems myself.
Part of the problem was the Server could not find cookies/headers AFTER installing several plugins. I deactivated Cookies for Comments
and things improved, but it is still terribly slow.

Using WP 2.6.2

Here is a VERY BASIC .htaccess

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

# END WordPress

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