Permalink and .htaccess problems

  • Calling all WordPress gurus! I’m hoping someone might be able to help me get my blog functioning properly. I’ve searched the support forums extensively and have found a number of other people with the same permalink/.htaccess issue, with the problem unresolved.

    Problem Description:
    Permalinks are not functioning properly. In the permalink settings under options I entered-
    Structure: /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
    When I click on an article, the url it tries to pull up in in the above format, but it brings up a 404 file not found error.

    Steps Taken to Resolve:
    Whenever I delete the .htaccess file, the site comes back up, but the permalinks don’t function. When I upload the .htaccess file (no matter what permissions, I then get the “Internal Server Error” again for any page I try to open up (including admin).

    When I’ve uploaded the new .htaccess file, I’ve pasted the exact content I’m told to paste in from the admin permalink options area. This crashes the site. If I delete the .htaccess file or upload an empty version of it, then the site comes back up (permalinks still not working).

    I don’t understand why wordpress isn’t doing this automatically. Under the admin options permalinks section it says it should take care of the .htaccess file automatically, but it can’t since “.htaccess is not write-able”. I don’t understand this since right now I’ve got a blank .htaccess file loaded with permissions set to 666. My site pulls up, but the permalinks don’t function. If I go to paste in the content on the permalink options page it just crashes my site with the Internal server error again.

    The site is served at:
    https://www.flashpointstudios.com/homefixated/
    The /homefixated/ directory contains the .htaccess file, index.php, and the other wordpress files and folders.

    Oh, and my webhost (cihost) has verified that this is on apache and that mod_rewrite is enabled.

    I’ve been struggling trying to resolve this issue for a week now and am dead in the water. I would be hugely appreciative if someone can help me get this resolved (my last post was left unresolved with the last inquiry being from another user having the same problem). Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide me with!

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  • The only way I found for wp to write to the .htaccess through the program editor itself was to set the file 777 which is sort of a bad idea. In any case, it didn’t help when I tried it, because it still didn’t work right. My host was no help on this though she’s otherwise a pearl of great price. I gave up. It’ s not that big a deal to me, though it does seem important to others.

    I also tried simply having my host install the requisite stuff in the .htaccess (she’s really pretty helpful). Still didn’t work. The stuff I can put into the file through cpanel works perfectly; otherwise bag it.

    Sorry not to be more help. Good luck!

    Thread Starter mlyman

    (@mlyman)

    I figured out my issue! Turns out the Blog address (URI) under general options in the WordPress admin was set to the wrong address. Correcting it to match the WordPress Address (URI) (and the correct address for the blog) fixed the issue!

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