joshbowers

Yeah I’m lost too.

I downloaded the HTACCESS and it has the newest BPS version.

So I added the redirect to the bottom:
# Redirect old file path to new file path
Redirect /olddirectory/menowhat.htm https://menalive.com/male-menopause-andropause-quiz/new-file.php

And it does nothing. Tried a few different ways and still nothing.

So I’m lost. BPS seems to be working but when I click the “create htaccess” buttons I get redirected to 404, but the htaccess seems to be getting created as everything is normal otherwise (the htaccess has all the right stuff in it and is getting updated).

But even when manually updating the htaccess I can’t seem to get the 301 redirect to work.

I’m just going to leave it alone until I hear back from the person who hosts it (which is useless really since they don’t even know wordpress or databases, just old html).

If a solution comes up I’ll post back.

Server API: cgi-fcgi – Your Host Server is using CGI.
Document Root Path: /home/creation/public_html/menalive
WP ABSPATH: /home/creation/public_html/menalive/
Parent Directory: /home/creation/public_html

I’d love to be able to do it manually but when I tried to add the redirect to the htaccess file it messed everything up so I put it back the way it was.

Can I edit the htaccess file manually at all?

Activated all BPS things I could.
Still get the 404 when I try to create the default HTACCESS.
I can put custom code in the bottom custom code area but it doesn’t seem to do anything.

I’ve sent a message to the person who hosts the site and has access to the control panel.

I’m not sure how to check the url link structure other than the permalinks in the general settings which is set to /%postname%/.

If I figure it out I’ll post back. And if I hear anything useful from the site admin I’ll post back. Thanks AITpro for all the advice, appreciate it.

Can you link me to the other wordpress site? I can’t even find it on the server.

I uninstalled and reinstalled the BPS plugin but the 404 is still happening which is a but confusing as I had already used it when the site was originally setup (default htacces, bullet proof mode, etc). I’m a bit perplexed why these issues are coming up now.

I don’t have access to the control panel as that is the previous developers login info and she refuses to let me login.

I also deleted the htaccess file, which messed up the urls so I rebuilt it through saving the permalinks setting.

Don’t want you to spend time doing tech support on this but if you have any quick ideas I’d appreciate it.

When I try to create the secure HTACCESS file I get a 404 error

Should I uninstall and re-install the plugin? If so are there any steps to this I should know before doing?

Ah ok. So I export my databases through phpyMyAdmin.

Then import those to the new host.

Then upload the copy of the site.

Will that take care of the posts, categories, etc? Or do I import the XML too?

I tried deleting all of them.