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<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

</IfModule>

define('FTP_USER', 'example_co_uk_2');

define('FTP_PASS', 'fyvTrfMpLUdR');

define('FTP_HOST', 'dev.example.co.uk');

define('FTP_SSL', false);

Josh Cranwell | 08/16/12 at 7:59pm Edit

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  08/16/12
  8:14pm
  Abdelhadi Touil says:

  Hi.
  I think it's a problem with .htaccess file permession, sometimes server dos not let us to change it, so after changin permession to 777, refresh your files via FTP and see if it's really 777.
  I sugest to create a new .htaccess file (not just delete the current .htaccess content), create a blank new one, and make it 777, then resave your permalink structure via wordpress admin.
  Hope this helps you. Sorry for my bad English.
  Good luck.

  • 08/16/12 8:20pm
    
    Josh Cranwell says:

    Thank you for the advice.
    
    I did try this, I deleted .htaccess, made new ones. Tried a couple ftp clients like cyberduck and espresso. Refreshed permissions and definitely was changing (so it says)
    
    I will contact my server guy tomorrow morning and see if he can see any problems with it. I never had this problem before and for it to just start. Very weird.
    
    I'm off to bed but will pick this up in 7 hours.
    
    Thanks
    
    

  • 08/16/12 8:23pm
    
    Abdelhadi Touil says:

    You are welcome. Good night.

• 
  Last edited:
  08/17/12
  12:48am
  Arnav Joy says:

  try two things:-
  
  1. Switch to twentyeleven or twentyten theme and then test it.
  
  or
  
  2. keep the full backup of your site including db then reinstall wp again and then install the plugins one by one and see.

  • 08/17/12 4:21am
    
    Josh Cranwell says:

    Interesting....
    
    Switch to my twentyeleven theme and the permalinks structure works?
    
    How can this be related??

  • 08/17/12 4:34am
    
    Arnav Joy says:

    if this thing happening then there must be any code in your theme that is overriting default behaviour , check your theme for any rewrite rule , specially functions.php or share it here

  • 08/17/12 5:38am
    
    Josh Cranwell says:

    Hi
    
    I just discovered that all my custom post types work fine???
    
    It's just pages and post that get 404.
    
    It is a bit suspect that this plugin below only works for posts and pages...
    
    And when I installed this, all these problems started...
    
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-meta-robots/
    
    
    I can't run a restore database backup because there are other server backups qued..

  • 08/17/12 5:49am
    
    Arnav Joy says:

    try this plugin
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/

  • 08/17/12 5:57am
    
    Josh Cranwell says:

    Sure this won't fix my 404 will it?

  • 08/17/12 5:59am
    
    Arnav Joy says:

    i am not sure , i have not tested it .. sorry i should have say this before

  • 08/17/12 6:24am
    
    Josh Cranwell says:

    Are you around to PM you?

  • 08/17/12 11:36am
    
    Arnav Joy says:

    can you provide me access to your site?

• 
  Last edited:
  08/17/12
  2:27am
  Asad Iqbal says:

  Which server you are running now? Apache or nGinex?

  • 08/17/12 4:22am
    
    Josh Cranwell says:

    Apache for sure..

  • 08/17/12 4:36am
    
    Asad Iqbal says:

    This may cause for apache configuration. Please ask your hosting provider.

• 
  Last edited:
  08/17/12
  4:50am
  Pali Madra says:

  I would suggest deleting the .htaccess file.
  
  Create a new blank .htaccess file.
  
  Upload it to the root of the server.
  
  Change the permissions to 777.
  
  Now re-save or change the permalink structure and then save it.
  
  The website should be working fine now.

  • 08/17/12 5:05am
    
    Josh Cranwell says:

    Nope... still working...
    
    
    OK I've established this...
    
    
    These are my General settings...
    
    
    WordPress Address (URL)
    http://dev.example.co.uk/wp
    
    Site Address
    http://dev.example.co.uk/
    
    
    But wordpress is not writing the .htaccess in the 'Site Address' - it is writing one in the 'WordPress Address (URL)' location???
    
    
    How can this be happening???
    
    

  • 08/17/12 5:14am
    
    Pali Madra says:

    Hello Josh
    
    Please remember that
    
    - The "Home" or WordPress address (URL) setting is the address you want people to type in their browser to reach your WordPress blog.
    
    - The "Site URL" or site address setting is the address where your WordPress core files reside.
    
    Is this correctly defined in your installation? Please confirm.
    
    

  • 08/17/12 5:18am
    
    Josh Cranwell says:

    Are you sure...
    
    It is the opposite way round I thought?
    
    See this screen shot

  • 08/17/12 5:25am
    
    Pali Madra says:

    Please refer to the codex at http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

  • 08/17/12 5:38am
    
    Josh Cranwell says:

    Yeah hard coding it made no difference.

• 
  Last edited:
  08/17/12
  1:50pm
  ej_emman says:

  Hello Josh,
  
  Based on what you said.
  
  "Switch to my twentyeleven theme and the permalinks structure works?"
  
  This gives an idea that there is a conflict in the functions of your template.
  
  I also think that http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-meta-robots/ , this plugin
  
  nothing wrong with your website.
  
  I suggest to paste the function codes. So that we can trace up where does it goes wrong.
  
  
  Cheers,
  
  
  Joseph

  • 08/17/12 7:04pm
    
    Josh Cranwell says:

    Thanks for your comment, Arnav had a look and after indepth testing it was a dodgy register_taxonomy function.

• 
  Last edited:
  08/17/12
  5:56pm
  philip says:

  OK, my guess is that this is a software upgrade related problem.
  
  e.g. if your host has updated their version of PHP recently you could get exactly this sort of problem.
  
  Although it sounds like it is .htaccess issue, the pattern (certain post types show) suggests not.
  
  2 other things you could do:
  
  1) disable all plugins and re-enable one by one
  
  2) in wp-config.php set WP_DEBUG to 'true' and check the output. Those 'warnings' should be diagnostic.
  
  Post them here or a live link to problem pages with debug on and someone here no doubt will be able to help.
  
  BUT if - as you say Twenty Ten works - the previous contributor is probably right and there will be some deprecated PHP function in your theme that is messing it up, most likely lurking in functions.php.
  
  The explanation of the sudden change being some software update by your host.
  
  Hope that helps a bit.

  • 08/17/12 7:05pm
    
    Josh Cranwell says:

    Thanks for your comment, Arnav had a look and after indepth testing it was a dodgy register_taxonomy function.

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