permalinks not working after upgrade to 3.1. and 3.1.1

Bummer! ?? The only plus point is that it does support the theory that there’s something screwy going on here – either on the server or within the install. Do you have anything else running on your hosting space? Any other applications? Any other .htaccess files anywhere?

Well the server I’m on is shared not dedicated. But, never had issues I can only see the one htaccess file except for the ones i renamed htaccessold during the start of this mess. It never occurred to me that post name was a bad thing but after reading the above documentation i see now . None of the permalink provided work, except the default one. the site had been on this server since October 2010 and worked fine until i upgraded to 3.1.1. Now I’ve updated to 3.1.2.

Hah.. just changed it back to default again because the catagories dont work now.. 404 error on all posts within category with the /%postname/ structure.

Have you checked your database? Or tried repairing it?

sigh.. no change

i would try to set permalinks to default (?p=1) an then with a writeable .htaccess change back to the custom style u had before.

after that u should check the htaccess, if the right code is there.

like

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

paul-sims, i tried that too and it didnt help my problem. Im going to try a fresh install on a new domain – must be something going on with mine cos I upgraded another site to 3.1.2 yesterday on the same server and it was fine.
will let u know how I go

,
# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

</IfModule>

# END WordPress,
This is in the .htaccess-bak file that must have been previously created. the .htaccess file now says only
#Begin wordpress and #end wordpress.

It is definitely writing to the htaccess file. I now have the same string as i did above. and found the backtick..lol

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

have you tried repairing your tables in phpmyadmin it stops my errors but they come back after about 10 new post

beclecto, do u have WP E-commerce plugin on your site?
I looks like my permalinks issue is a problem with WP E-commerce on 3.1.2 – see https://getshopped.org/forums/topic.php?id=19333

I just did a brand new install of WP & WPEC for the same problem to happen again – no resolution as yet

Nope.. no WP E-commerce…
and NO resolution.

Okay, after a few days in Daytona Beach to hopefully see the Endeavor blast off… Mission scrubbed.. ?? I’m back at this issue. I’ve checked and repaired my sql database and still.. sigh.. NO change.
This is killin me… Anybody still out there who might be able to help?

Here’s a hotfix for broken permalinks for category and tags … and pagination for categories, tags, and searches. It’s helped lots of folks.

https://wpcodesnippets.info/blog/how-to-fix-the-wp-3-1-custom-permalinks-bug.html

Thank you Luke. I just wish they’d fix it.. like now.. not in version 3.2. I HOPE that they are working on it day and night to get this resolved. This is a BIG DEAL to a lot of people! I’ve lost 800 percent of my traffic.

I thank you for bringing it to my attention that this bug is real and big and am in hopes they are working on it very hard.