Admin sometimes 404, links mainly 404, site normal
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I looked at all the other 2.9.2 + Admin + 404 threads — there are a lot but none replicating my exact problem.
After upgrading automatically some time ago everything was as usual working excellently, as it has for 3 years, then after a post on the 22nd March, I suddenly got 500 pages for both the site and the Admin.
So… I’ll copy directly from my blog to explain:
A week or so before I had emplaced a new improved .htaccess, as described here and here, it worked well and seemed to increase speed — so I’m absolutely certain this had nothing to do with the later problems. When on the 22nd I could not enter the site due to the 500 pages, I began flashing new trial .htaccess’s in and out as if confetti and updating the settings on the Dreamhost Web Panel ( ‘Edit Site’, simply updating without altering settings ) which restored it to semi-normality; although I was getting Dreamhost 404s whenever the .htaccess was improper. I was then able to uninstall supercache in the recommended way, and for good measure through ftp deleted all recent plugins. This now came back to serene falcon-specific 404s. Which I still get if the browser is busy, yet if undelayed the admin panel shows. From here any linked page or url shown in that panel sometimes works, but usually resolves into a 404. Should I hit the Update Permalinks button — which is mandated after any change — the whole thing starts over and requires the previous Dreamhost Settings to be hit again.
Whenever I hit Update Permalinks I get a site-404, but it may have gone through, as when I hit Save Draft it also goes to 404 but I later find from the Admin Panel it was saved. Dreamhost has been a tower of weakness in helping with this ( it might be server-exacerbated, it’s an old server ).
The present position is that the site comes up fine; posts opened as pages sometimes come up fine and sometimes as 404s: the Admin Panel comes up 2 out of 3 as a 404 — particularly if the connection takes a time — but then I get lucky and see either it complete or semi-complete ( but fully loaded according to Firefox, just without all sections ). Links like Plugins or Firestats generally are 404s, but none of the statistics actually work.
The present .htaccess is the standard:
# BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404 RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPressAnd I have to save the Dreamhost Site Settings from their Web Panel and hit the Update Permalinks button to clear things when the Admin Panel won’t come at all. I’m supposing that something in 2.9.1 and .2 has affected a lot of sites with 404s and Permalink problems…
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