Page not found error

Only my home page working

Hi Liverroomescape,

Can you please share the link to your website?

I am not sure what the problem is, having a look may give me a better idea. If you are able to give me some more details that would also be helpful.

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https://www.liveroomescape.com

It sounds like your WordPress is having an issue with the .htaccess file and permalinks. I found some advice on stackoverflow.com

for these instructions to work WordPress must be able to write to your .htaccess file, give this a try let me know how it goes.

if you was using permalinks other than the default such as Day and name, Month and name, Numeric, Post name or Custom Structure, you only need to

• Login to your admin area: Settings > Permalinks which should be : https://yoursite.com/wp-admin/options-permalink.php
• Choose Default permalink setting, then save changes
• Then you can return it again to your other previous permalink choice or keep it as default as yo wish

Note that this problem can happen when you move your site from a domain or location to another one.

I`ll try thanks. I didn’t move or transferred anything ??

I tried and still the same ??

I just tried to replicate the problem on my WordPress. What i did was i delete my .htaccess file and this caused all of my pages to return a 404 not found, only my home page worked.

I decided to delete my .htaccess file and then I went to admin area: Settings > Permalinks and changed it to default, and saved changes
I then changed my permalinks back to the setting i wanted which is custom:/%category%/%postname%/

I then went into my FTP and checked to see if the .htaccess file had been recreated by WordPress, and it had been. now all my pages are working again.

This may seem like we are repeating the last steps i asked you to, but in this case the major difference is that we are first deleting the .htaccess file. Please make a backup of the .htaccess file just in case

Let me know how it goes, i hope this works

Can I ask you a favor? I`m not that good. I have no clue where I can find the .htaccess file
Can I give you my WP password and can you try to do it for me, or if it1s too much trouble can you direct me step by step?

the .htaccess file is located in the root directory which is where all the WordPress files sit on your server. usually it is accessed by using a FTP program like FileZilla.

FTP access is where you can look at the files and folders that make up WordPress and your website on the server itself.

To delete .htaccess file requires FTP access, do you happen to know if you have FTP access to your website?

One would need to access FTP and WordPress in order to complete this task.

I’d be happy to give it a go for you or i can walk you through step by step its up to you, which would you prefer?, don’t post your password details here. Contact me via email: greataussiepie at hotmail dot com

Thanks just mailed you

Hi there, I see that your pages are now accessible. Have you got a solution that I could follow? None of my pages work.

https://www.ur-rotmg.com/

Liveroomescapes problem seems to illude me so yours may be different, however we have found a work around. By changing the permalink settings to default WordPress is able to direct the user to the exact page ID that the menu items link to.

are you having the exact same problem Urgableh? did you recently update to WordPress 3.9?

Apparently not. I had 3.82..

Do i simply delete the wordpress folder from the FTP client? and upload the new version?

Would you be able to start a brand new topic, i know you have the exact same problem but the reason to start a new topic is because different versions of WordPress and different server setups can result in similar problems but have different causes.

Try to give details of what you were doing before the website stopped working and if you recently changed any settings or downloaded any new plugins, or changed something somewhere. the more info the better ??