Woocommerce – remove category base = 404

Hello @wjtk,

Thank you for contacting the support and sorry for not following up quickly and any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

That should not be happening.

Can you please reset your .htaccess file on the server and see if that helps?

Looking forward to helping you.

What do you mean by “reset your .htaccess file”? I have few customization here, I don’t want to get rid of that.

Btw. I found out on your support forum that A LOT of users has this problem, at least since a year. Are you going to do anything about that?

Hello @wjtk

Your customized rules in the .htaccess file might be causing the issue.

Every setup has a different issue so you can not relate your issue to someone else.

Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

I don’t think so. It’s like 3 lines which redirects traffic from https:// and https://domain.name to https://www.domain.name. What are your steps to reset the file? Just removing those?

The problem with RankMath is exactly as other user experience, problem is not solved at least for a year or so…

Hello @wjtk

Can you please share the content of the .htaccess file by using a service like PasteBin so we can suggest better?

Also, the issues you are mentioning, can you please link to the tickets?

Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

Hi,
I’ll upload htaccess soon, but there is nothing which could be problematic. I foud out that I can reproduce the problem by editing and saving categories.

Tickets (just to name a few):
https://support.rankmath.com/ticket/404-product-category/
https://support.rankmath.com/ticket/404-errors-when-updating-or-deleting-categories/
https://support.rankmath.com/ticket/404-error-on-woocommerce-category-after-updates-clear-cache-add-new/?gdpos=power-search-request
https://support.rankmath.com/ticket/remove-category-base-broken-again/
https://support.rankmath.com/ticket/404-error-with-product-category/

htaccess: https://pastebin.com/cssP7rar

Hello @wjtk

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Please update to the latest version. That should fix the issue.

If not, please let us know and we will be more than happy to assist.

Take care!