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Thanks Tara – yes I have seen the long chain of threads, but mostly they refer to Bad Request Errors that contain some further explanatory text whereas the error messages I’m receiving are less ‘helpful’.

I will though see if any of the threads seem to deal with a similar circumstance.

Thanks again

When I checked the files before (when trying to resolve this issue) I found an ‘.htaccess’ file at that level and wondered if I had incorrectly located the .htaccess file that I had previously moved there. I moved that file to the folder I had been instructed to move it to (by my WP book) leaving no .htaccess file at the level that you mention.

I have therefore copied back the moved file and renamed it .htaccess1. This has not resolved the problem (I may just have confused the entire build I realise).

Apologies – I am somewhat in the dark – a beginner, as I say.

Any thoughts? (keep them clean please!) ; )

Oh – the File Manager (FTP site?) in my cPanel has the ‘view invisible files’ option checked.

James hi

Thanks for your help.

I wasn’t quite sure what you meant by:

‘If that does not resolve the issue, it’s possible that a .htaccess rule could be the source of the problem. To check for this, access your server via FTP or SFTP and rename the .htaccess file. If you can’t find a .htaccess file, make sure that you have set your FTP or SFTP client to view invisible files.’

I currently have .htaccess file in public_html/domain_name/wp-content/backup-db having followed the instructions of a guide to WP design which starts from a position of using the Twenty Eleven theme for the initial set up and design – I am wondering whether this is creating a conflict with the Twenty Fourteen theme in some way? I have loaded additional (social media linkage) plugins which aren’t working either.

Hope that you, or anyone else coming across this topic can advise me – very much the ‘rookie’ blogger.

Thanks

Thanks for the advice James – I have already tried to resolve the issue (which has only manifested itself in the site that I have created from scratch in the Twenty Fourteen theme – the other site I have was created in Twenty Eleven) by turning off all the plugins. When I deactivated all the plugins I still had no use of the links which still returned the ‘bad request’ error.

One thing I was worried about when setting up the site was the .htaccess file which I located in the wp-database folder under the content folder for the site but I got to that result in a slightly different way to the process I had followed when setting up the site in Twenty Eleven.

Are you able to give me a little more guidance on the .htaccess issue? I am hoping that I won’t need to go back to square one or that if I do, I can work out how to strip away all the db files and can effect a ‘clean’ re-install.

OK Thanks Lester – I’ll email support at my host