False 404 status on existing posts

  • Hello,

    I have a problem that has had be stumped for the past day:

    • I have a page: website.com/about which exists and loads fine in the browser but has a 404 HTTP status.
    • Child pages such as website.com/about/subpage also have a 404 status.
    • Other pages such as website.com/otherpage load fine with the proper 200 status
    • I have disabled every plugin and switched to the twentlytwelve theme and still have this problem
    • I have checked the database and the post_name column of wp_posts there is indeed only one entry of ‘about’
    • When I changed permalinks to default it works and solves the problem
    • If I use any other permalink setting beside default, it does not work, even after multiple saves to reset
    • this problem is on my dev server. It works fine on my local version of the site
    • If I change the slug of the about page from ‘about’ to ‘about2’ (or something else) this solves the problem
    • I have nothing in the trash
    • nothing looks fishy in the .htaccess file

    This is all the relevant information I can think of sharing. If anyone has any ideas as to what is causing this problem that would be great. Thanks!

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  • This sounds like an issue with your server’s implementation of the rewrite rules in your WordPress .htaccess file. Have you spoken to them about it?

    Thread Starter Steve Puddick

    (@_silver)

    I thought that may be the case too, but I have other dev sites on the same server (on a different sub domain). The rewrite rules work fine for those sites. I am hosting on GoDaddy.

    Are you sure that all sites on on the same physical server?

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