All My Permalinks Stopped Working after Upgrade!

  • I recently upgraded my blog to WP 2.0 and thought things were going great until I noticed that my click through rate had dropped significantly.

    I just now realized the reason: All of my in-site links no longer work. They all bring me back to my homepage. That’s not entirely accurate: What happens is this:

    My website is https://www.WilyTrader.com

    One of my Permalinks is WilyTrader.com/Downloads

    What happens is that the browser tells me that it has taken me to the desired page but it looks just like the homepage.

    This is what I have tried so far:
    1) Disabled all the plugins
    2) Checked .htaccess to make sure it was set to 666
    3) Tried changing the permalinks structure to see if that would help

    That was about all the ideas I was able to come up with on my own, so any help from here would be much appreciated.

    Thank you,

    Jason

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  • Not sure if even the ugly ones don’t work.
    You might want to take care of some of these (a world record I believe…:>)):
    https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wilytrader.com%2F

    To get mine to work I had to

    keep all plugins disabled and set it to use default them, then set permalinks in options to a custom like /%category%/%postname%/ and update permalinks.

    See if that works

    also, open your .htaccess and see if it still has rules in it and it is not empty. mine was blank and I had to put a copy of them in there

    then I restarted everything and it worked fine.. then I changed themes and it was ok.

    Thread Starter koprowski

    (@koprowski)

    OK so here’s an update:

    I still have all plugins disabled for the time being. I then changed my Permalinks structure back to the Default ?Page_ID# and all of my permalinks worked.

    So I then tried to change the structure to anything else /%postname%/ is what i had been using, but I tried a number of different configurations with no luck. When I would change the configuration, I would still be able to access the pages if I typed in the ?Page_ID# structure manually:

    For example:

    https://www.wilytrader.com/?page_id=121 is the same page as

    https://www.wilytrader.com/downloads but I can’t seem to get the new structure to hold.

    I don’t know what my .htaccess file is supposed to look like. It isn’t empty, but there’s not much in it so I’ll post it:

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

    # END WordPress

    Is this what is supposed to be in there? if so, anyone have any other suggestions?

    Thanks again.

    That’s all that’s supposed to be in there. Parsing of the URLs is done by PHP now rather than mod_rewrite in the .htaccess file.

    Thread Starter koprowski

    (@koprowski)

    which is all that’s supposed to be in there, the first one or the second one?

    So the .htaccess should be relatively empty? Which PHP is supposed to do the parsing then because my links still aren’t working?

    has it ever worked? reason I am asking is that Apache has a place in it where it might not be allowing the rerwrite rules from the .htaccess ..

    Thread Starter koprowski

    (@koprowski)

    Been working for months with version 1.5 I only upgraded to 2.0 this week and only then have I had any issues

    Thread Starter koprowski

    (@koprowski)

    I’ve been in touch with Netfirms Support and they told me to change my Permalinks Structure to

    /index.php/%postname%/

    This has made it so that the links are at least a little bit prettier but now all of my links are in the form of https://www.WilyTrader.com/index.php/downloads etc…

    How can I make it so that the /index.php/ doesn’t show up in the link as simply using the structure /%postname%/ doesn’t work?

    Thanks again for any suggestions,

    ~Jason

    Get a real host?

    Search here on netfirms and permalinks.

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