Help! My links don’t work.

Do you have a .htaccess file in your root? Did WordPress write what it needed to have in there? Looks like it may not have.

Checkout the troubleshooting information at the Permalinks page.

In particular, confirm your host has mod_rewrite and AllowOverride on and properly enabled.

Thank you for such great responses.

I did not have a .htacces file in my root, so I went to the permalinks page and learned to create a .htaccess file. But it didn’t say what format to save it in, so I saved it as a .txt. All I did was open notepad and save it as 1.htaccess.txt and then imported it via ftp to folder blog/. Then I did the properties > and changed the number 644 to 666 and then renamed the file as .htaccess (without the 1).

What is most confusing is the folders that shows in the browser. For instance, when I click on the RSS link and it opens https://www.maxwho.com/blog/feed/ I don’t have a folder in the blog folder called “feed”. Same with clicking on the link for category product review..I dont have a folder for category/product-review. Odd.

I did email my host to find out about the mod_rewrite thing. I don’t know how to see if they are properly enabled, but maybe my host can help.

Any other ideas I can try to get these links working?

Thank you!

But it didn’t say what format to save it in, so I saved it as a .txt. All I did was open notepad and save it as 1.htaccess.txt and then imported it via ftp to folder blog/. Then I did the properties > and changed the number 644 to 666 and then renamed the file as .htaccess (without the 1).

Remove the “.txt”

What is most confusing is the folders that shows in the browser. For instance, when I click on the RSS link and it opens https://www.maxwho.com/blog/feed/ I don’t have a folder in the blog folder called “feed”. Same with clicking on the link for category product review..I dont have a folder for category/product-review. Odd.

You won’t have a physical folder named /feed, true. That’s the “magic” of Permalinks. ??

hmmm, that clears up a lot!!
So the .htaccess file will have that information then? Is that why my links aren’t working..because the.htaccess isn’t working right? my .htaccess file is blank.

Still waiting for a response from my host about the mod_rewrite and AllowOverride.

Does anyone have any other ideas I can try while I wait for them. Maybe there is something I am supposed to do with the .htaccess file.

Thanks!

you definitely want a file named “.htaccess”. No extension. And it needs to live in your WordPress directory.

So get that going now. Options -> Permalinks and Save. If WP can’t write to your .htaccess, it will tell you what you need to add to it. If it can write to it, it’ll do so just like magic. ??

If that fixes you up, perfect. You’re done.
If you’re still having issues, then definitely want to confirm the other stuff with your host.

AAAAHHHH GENIOUS!! It works great now. Thank you soooo much! Very cool.

Glad you got it going. Mark this one as [Resolved] up at the top of the page?

Happy Blogging!