I changed the .htaccess file and now my site doesn’t work :( Please help !

Undo the changes you made from the paste. You didn’t need to do that. WordPress handles permalinks internally, your rewrite rules that you had already were fine.

BTW
If I go direct to my-site.com/blog/index.php then it all works ok.

But running it from root doesn’t work ??

my-site == fethiye-guide

thanks for any helpful guidance.

Do you mean that I should delete this:

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

??

The reason I pasted it was becuase it sad something like
“If we could update the .htaccess file …
copy and paste the stuff below”

so I did.

Well …

I deleted that stuff and it now reads:

# -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 fethiye-guide.com
AuthUserFile /home/fetty/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/fetty/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

and this htaccess file is in BOTH the root and in the blog directory.

But I am still getting the same error.

see : https://www.site.com

site == fethiye-guide

thanks for helping ??

OK fixed it ??

1) I went back to my original htaccess
2) Made the htaccess wrtable
3) I changed my permalinks to something else

Hope this helps some else as well !

Yes… you should write permalinks using wordpress. It won’t make mistake! if you’re editing manually then you should be a geek in .htaccess files!

Let me see if I’ve got this straight. If you are using the default permalinks you won’t have a .htaccess file in the root.

As soon as you choose one of the other permalink options wordpress writes an .htaccess file. Am I right?

@ncwalker

You should have started a new thread. I wasn’t even going to read this one since it is marked as “resolved”. ??

You probably won’t have a htaccess file at root. A htaccess file is an Apache config file that sets/changes the server’s config settings for the directory it resides in. When you opt to select “pretty permalinks” in WordPress, assuming the server has mod_rewrite enabled, (an Apache module that rewrites permalinks on the fly) WP will use the htaccess file in conjunction with mod_rewrite to create the permalinks. If the file does not exist, WordPress will create it.

Further reading here.

Yeah, having two copies of .htacess with the same content is the problem. You do not need to define rewrite rules twice.