Help! Site Down After Deleting htaccess

  • help!

    1. this is a fresh WP 1.8.6 install. was working perfectly.
    2. i uploaded a file called “htaccess”, containing the following
      3. # PHP 5
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
# END PHP 5
    3. then i renamed it “.htaccess”
    4. then i deleted it
    5. now my wordpress pages (all except the homepage) will not load. i’m getting:
    • “Oops! This link appears to be broken.”

      • or

    • “The requested URL was not found on this server.”
    • i can see all my pages in the WP dashboard are still there.

      • using wp 2.8.6

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  • Thread Starter johnywhy

    (@johnywhy)

    Note, as far I as know, this was not a site which required htaccess.

    I used to use 1&1 and would run into the same exact issue. The only way I was able to get it fixed was to back up the directory and re-create it. I’m sure there’s a better way but that worked for me.

    Thread Starter johnywhy

    (@johnywhy)

    i’m not on 1and1, but it is a shared host (justhost, recommended by www.remarpro.com)

    the following comes from the WordPress error_log:

    [21-Nov-2009 00:07:03] WordPress database error Query was empty for query made by require_once, do_action, call_user_func_array, postie_loadjs_options_page, require_once, UpdatePostieConfig, WriteConfig
    [21-Nov-2009 01:16:42] PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare maybe_create_table() (previously declared in /home/alexan48/public_html/celebrity/wp-content/plugins/postie/postie-functions.php:2061) in /home/alexan48/public_html/celebrity/wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php on line 1009
    [21-Nov-2009 01:16:42] PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare maybe_create_table() (previously declared in /home/alexan48/public_html/celebrity/wp-content/plugins/postie/postie-functions.php:2061) in /home/alexan48/public_html/celebrity/wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php on line 1009
    [21-Nov-2009 01:17:07] PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare maybe_create_table() (previously declared in /home/alexan48/public_html/celebrity/wp-content/plugins/postie/postie-functions.php:2061) in /home/alexan48/public_html/celebrity/wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php on line 1009
    [22-Nov-2009 17:57:02] WordPress database error Query was empty for query made by require_once, do_action, call_user_func_array, postie_loadjs_options_page, require_once, UpdatePostieConfig, WriteConfig
    [22-Nov-2009 18:04:33] WordPress database error Query was empty for query made by require_once, do_action, call_user_func_array, postie_loadjs_options_page, require_once, UpdatePostieConfig, WriteConfig
    [22-Nov-2009 22:01:29] PHP Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in /home/alexan48/public_html/celebrity/wp-content/plugins/wp2blosxom/wp2blosxom.php on line 164

    Thread Starter johnywhy

    (@johnywhy)

    Resolved:

    this wordpress actually is dependent on the following htaccess:

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

# END WordPress

    i’m not sure if this is created by my host in their one-click installer, but i do not see it in the wordpress 1.8.6 download.

    fortunately, i had a recent installation to compare to the bad one, and found the htaccess there.

    site is back up. yay.

    Thread Starter johnywhy

    (@johnywhy)

    i spoke too soon. the site came back for a minute, and now it’s down again.

    i noticed if i change my permalinks to “default”, all pages load. except hidden, and password-protected pages. those still don’t load.

    the following permalink worked no problem before the htaccess change.
    /%category%/%postname%/

    Thread Starter johnywhy

    (@johnywhy)

    well this is weird, i changed the permalinks to “default”, and then back to ‘/%category%/%postname%/’. now pages are loading ok.

    except for pages created with TDO Miniforms.

    somehow, removing and re-adding the htaccess has wreaked havoc on my permalinks.

    Thanks for mentioning this fix! I just completely borked my site messing with the .htaccess and switching the Permalinks to Default and then back to Custom worked like a charm un-breaking everything.

    switching the Permalinks to Default and then back to Custom worked like a charm un-breaking everything

    that’s how you reset permalinks, it can fix a lot of problems people have!

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