Blog page not working after permalinks changed

Did you update your .htaccess file? You are given instructions everytime you save a permalink structure.

This is what was generated for wordpress for the new permalink structure

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

# END WordPress

OK. Now, is that text actually in a .htaccess file? WordPress cannot always create/edit that file for you.

It’s funny I’m having the same problem I think.

Once I change my permalinks structure to %category%/%postname% the posts didn’t seem to work and they’re giving me ‘can’t found on sever’ error.

Do I have to edit another file when I change my permalinks structure?

I’m using WAMP by the way, does it matter?

yes I went on my host and copied the text as it stood in the file

OK. Something is odd. WP files appear to be in ‘/news/’ but https://www.richard-gaston-photography.com/?p=2 redirects to the ‘/About/’ page as it would if it were a wordpress page… which it is. So I guess what you’ve tried to do is something like what is described here but something has gone wrong. You’ve set siteurl to root and blogurl to ‘/News/’. Sound about right?

Yes, In my settings I have:

WordPress address (URL) https://www.richard-gaston-photography.com/news

Blog address (URL) https://www.richard-gaston-photography.com

I guess the only thing I can think of is that all of my other pages are actual pages I have created where the blog page has always just “worked”. There is not a .php file in my directory that I can point to, or a page that I have created to point to.

You can view my posts fine if you click on them from the side, a sample url of those is:
https://www.richard-gaston-photography.com/2009/11/19/post-processing/

This URL dos not really give me any idea of how to access my blog though, since in normal situations I would think that this would mean that my blog would be found at the site root, which is not the case.

I ended up messing around a bit and fixing this issue.

For anyone else having this issue here is what I did:

I think the issue may have been that I was naming the blog the same as I was naming my subdirectory that I had wordpress installed in. So, I had all of my files inside of a folder named news, and I was trying to have my blog page named news. This was causing it to go to the /news directory and not finding an index file. I renamed my wordpress page “blog” and changed the permalink.

I think the issue may have been that I was naming the blog the same as I was naming my subdirectory that I had wordpress installed in. So, I had all of my files inside of a folder named news, and I was trying to have my blog page named news.

This is exactly what I was wondering about but I didn’t know for sure if was a problem because I’ve never tried it and didn’t have time to do any testing. Glad you worked it out.

I am having problems with my permalink when I upgraded with 2.9.2. My permalink used to show like this:

OLD: https://digifotoblog.com/speak-thai-101-greetings/

NOW the permalink shows like this

NEW: https://digifotoblog.com/?p=461

HOw can I go back to my old permalink https://digifotoblog.com/speak-thai-101-greetings/? Most of my most visited links are not accessible anymore.

Please help

Problem solved, this is what I’ve done.

I changed the custom structure to /%postname%/

And it worked.

Whew!!!

Hi there,

I think I sort of have the same problem as the top post.

My site has a static homepage and a sepparate postpage for all the posts. It all worked until I changed the permalinks into prettylinks. I installed htaccess and all the pages turned into pretty urls, except for the newspage that showed “Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.”

If I change it back again to default, then everything is fine again.

I don’t think I’m using the same name in subdirectory or something like that (as the solution above)

What can I do? (oh, and i’m not very technical)

Thanks!