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Thank You, Shayne.

I will reconfigure and test. I think this will solve my problem.

yes sir the:

https://mydomain.com/Climate/ClimateNormalsCollective_EOLWY.pdf does work.

This then is the format I should have in my html that calls this page, correct?

<li><a href="//mydomain.com/Climate/ClimateNormalsCollective_EOLWY.pdf"><font color="red">*NEW*</font> Climate Normals Collective for EOLWY</a></li>

Guess I need to change and remove all my server IP entries. Hmm. These used to work until recently. I wonder what changed?

Thanks for the reply. Yes my WP install is in /var/www/html.

Our site is internal to our agency…so I imagine it is firewalled from the ‘net.

I am wondering which format I should use.

Further troubleshooting has shown that the link with the server IP will not work, but a link with the server name substituted for the server IP will.

Something changed recently, but I don’t know what. What format should be used?

<li><a href="//Nameofserver/Climate/ClimateNormalsCollective_EOLWY.pdf"><font color="red">*NEW*</font> Climate Normals Collective for EOLWY</a></li>

or maybe something like:

<li><a href="/Climate/ClimateNormalsCollective_EOLWY.pdf"><font color="red">*NEW*</font> Climate Normals Collective for EOLWY</a></li>

Sorry for all the newbie questions.

I have been searching and reading much more on this topic and decided to experiment a bit.

I changed the perms on my .htaccess file from 600 apache.apache to 666. Then I reset my permalinks to “default” and saved.

Now when I click on my submenu page it displays properly. I am not sure what happened here, but I am going to leave the config alone and try to create more pages.

Thanks for the kind help.

Sorry this is a localhost install.

Would screenshots help?

Thanks for the reply. I am running my own webserver.

I checked my httpd.conf file and
‘LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so’ is uncommented.

I also checked my .htaccess file and it has the following which I think is correct:

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

# END WordPress

Maybe I don’t understand completely how to add and then utilize a page in WP. I thought you would do the following:

1) create the new page and give it a name,
2) enter any html you want in the GUI editor and save/publish.

Now suppose you wanted the new page to be a submenu choice in your main navi menu. Like I mentioned before I was successful in getting a page to save, and in making it a submenu choice in my TwentyTen them. Still when I click on it I get a 404 error. The error returned is: “The requested URL /test/ was not found on this server.” Test is my new page name.

I must be doing something wrong. How should I “link” a new page? Is this the correct path the system should be looking for to find my file?

Sorry for all the questions. This is a fundamental problem I must solve quickly. ??