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I have another site running at “mysite.com”, and my hosting company will not allow me to add another domain name to my account unless it points to the root. Since I have another site running at the root, that’s not a viable option. If it comes to it I’ll have to go with another hosting company, but I’m hoping there’s an easier solution.

Luke, thank you so much for your quick response. I’m using ‘subdirectory’ as a generic name for my real directory. The hotfix, unfortunately, didn’t change a thing.

My hosting site is hostingdude.com. They say they’re fully compatible with WordPress and that nobody has ever complained about permalinks. That doesn’t really mean much, as I have no idea how many of their customers are running this version of wordpress, using permalinks, and called for help.

I disabled all plugins and reverted to the original theme; no change whatsoever.

2 things that might or might not be relevant:
– I have a custom background that disappears when I get the 404 error, whereas my custom header, menu bar and sidebar are still displayed. Not sure if this gives a clue as to what’s getting messed up.

and

-there’s domain name redirection going on. I would rather not name my actual website as some of my file permissions are currently not very secure, but if you’d like to take a look I’ll be happy to shoot you an email. That said, my website structure is the following:

https://www.website.com/WPblog

I bought the domain name “wpblog”, such that when you type https://www.wpblog.com into your browser, you get directed to https://www.website.com/wpblog and https://www.wpblog.com appears in your browser bar. Does that make sense? Wondering if that could be the culprit, and if so, what the fix would be…

I appreciate your input. This is driving me nuts.

I’m having the same 404 error with permalinks and wordpress 3.1.1. I don’t want to open yet another thread, so I really somebody here can help me.

I’m running apache with mod-rewrite enabled. I can’t mess with the core files but my hosting company assures me that AllowOveride is set to All. WordPress will not generate the .htaccess file regardless of the permissions that I set, so I’ve created my own file and plugged in the code wordpress gives me in the permalink settings page. I’ve also tried a bunch of others codes I’ve found searching the web, to no avail. I know wordpress is reading .htaccess because I get different types of errors if I replace the code with gibberish. My blog is new and does not have many pages, but every single one, including the homepage, is broken if I use use pretty permalinks (the default links work just fine, and any type of permalink structure will give me a 404 error ). Permalinks shows up in the correct format in my browser bar, and when I go to my site and I can see the header of my site and menu bar, but in the middle of the page I get a message saying:

“Error 404 – Not Found

Sorry, the page that you are looking for does not exist.”

So it does seem to be reading part of the page, but not the content…

A few things- my blog is located in a sub directory of my main site.

My .htaccess file currently looks like this:

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

I have tried not mentioning /subdirectory/ in the file, but that doesn’t work either.
I have placed the file both in my site directory, in my website’s root directory (outside of my blog), and in both places at the same time.
I have tried adding Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine at the beginning of my file, but that’s not doing anything either. I don’t have any plugins that interfere with categories or links.

Any ideas?