Out of the blue, without cause, permalinks aren’t working…:(

btw… this is dumb but.. when you all refer to .htaccess, is it the .htaccess in the root of my domain or within wp-content?

I looked at the .htaccess in the root and it does’t have any text in there except something for a plugin… no “rewriteengine on” or anything..

maybe i need to add something to that file??

Maybe (out of the blue) the .htaccess file (in the root folder) doesn’t have the 666 permissions for WordPress to write to it.

htaccess permissions checked, they are set to 666. Permalinks still not working.

This is what is inside my .htaccess file:

# BEGIN FAlbum

# END FAlbum

# BEGIN FlickrAlbum
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteBase /
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(flickr-album)/*([a-z]*)/*([0-9]*)/*([a-z]*)/*([0-9]*)/*$ /index.php?pagename=$1&$2=$3&$4=$5 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
# END FlickrAlbum

The .htaccess for wp lives in the wp root folder. That’s where you should have stuff pertaining to wp, and it should start something like this:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

etc.

Forgive me if this doesn’t make sense, but, here’s what I know.

I have my wordpress installed right in the main directory of my domain. It’s right inside my public_html folder.

The .htaccess I just pasted the contents of is ALSO right inside the public_html folder.

This was the correct file, right? If so, I’m obviously somehow missing some important code in there.. and if that is the case, how on earth did it get messed up? I’ve never even looked at that file before.

I also notice there is a .htaccess inside the wp-content folder, but, that one just says something like “All – indexes” or something.

SO looks like my .htaccess file is screwed up?

thanks for the time and support.

Morning, yes sounds like the right file – root htaccess ‘cuz WP is in the root directory. I read yesterday where you turned off WP permalinks because they were not working. In that case WP would/should have removed the rewrite rules and conditions from htaccess.

If you turn custom permalinks back on, then there should be the WP section again.

oh, crap.. so that’s not the problem then ??

problem solved.

my host (www.jatol.com) upgraded their PHP and said several WP folks had complained of the same prob.. they changed some file and fixed it for me..

Glad it’s sorted. Thanks for reporting back!