404 errors after switching servers

I tried disabling all my plugins, changing lines in my .htaccess and other themes. I can save permalinks on my main site just not on my subdomain. And yes I mean that I click save and it will still be selected on the ugly permalinks

UNLESS i put index.php/%WHATEVER%/
and CHMOD my htaccess to 777

I don’t know why but it works when I do that

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Okay. You shouldn’t need to use either index.php in your URLs or change htaccess to 777…

Rewind. What are your server specs? Have you asked your host if you’re permitted to run MultiSite? Some don’t let you.

(The tl;dr of this story is “Your new host has some different settings, you may need to work with them to sort out how THEY let you use WordPress and Multisite.”)

They’re being really stubborn and stupid and are saying it’s wordpress and not them.

Can you use pretty permalinks on your MAIN site or do you have to use index.php in there as well?

And can you find out your server specs? Like what OS (I’m on CentOS 5.5 x 64 for example), what version of PHP, ertc.

I can use permalinks on my main site but what exactly do you mean by if I use index.php? I will ask for the specs.

You said:

UNLESS i put index.php/%WHATEVER%/

So can you use permalinks on your main site like /yyyy/mm/postname or do they have to be /index.php/yyyy/mm/postname as well?

What host is this? I normally don’t ask, but I wonder if it’s one we know has weird tricks to keep in mind.

ipage.com is my hosting company

Here’s the specs they gave me:
Running PHP version on Apache/2.

Platform Type Debian
MySQL Version 5.0.91
Perl Version 5.8.8
PHP Version 5.2.17

No, ALL types of permalinks work on my main site

Re-reading the whole thread …

Can you switch themes to something that doesn’t require timthumb? Twenty Eleven would be the best test. I want to rule out something in your functions.php causing all this.

Also did you use their simple script to install, or do it manually when you copied the files over?

This is starting to look like iPage doesn’t permit MultiSite to work right, which is possible. I’ve heard my Drupal buddies complain about it before.

Hmmm… It seems to be working on Twenty Eleven… But it’s not working on three different themes. Each one of them uses their own functions.php correct? So that might rule it out. And also I manually copied the files over when I switched servers.

Yes.

If it works on 2011, and NOT your other themes, then it’s the themes doing ‘something’ weird in their functions.php OR it’s a permissions issue (highly unlikely).

could it be possible that I didn’t set the right permissions on a certain folder when I transferred the files over?

It would have to be the theme folder. BUT … It works on TwentyEleven. Which flies in the face of that theory :/

So then I think it will boil down to one of the wp-content files then… if it’s not the server.

Did you modify the themes or are they the stock ones from the repo?

You could always delete and reinstall them via the WP installer.

I modified them but I did put the stock one back and it still had problems. But now that I’m thinking about things, they were working BEFORE I upgraded WordPress to 3.3