Jun 05 2008
WordPress 404 Not Found Problem
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I stayed up late last night and was up early this morning. But it didn’t help with my WordPress blog’s ‘404 Not Found’ problem.
Actually it happened yesterday afternoon when I installed a plug-in that tampered with my .htaccess file. The install document was so badly written in some sort of English that in the end I was driven nuts and uninstalled it. I manually removed the part that it inserted into my .htaccess, but didn’t realize I probably mistakingly deleted/altered some of the old codes along the way.
The home page looked fine but all permalinks returned a ‘404 Not Found’ error - and I didn’t find that until this morning when I checked visitor statistics! If you experience a similar problem, i.e. you can visit the home page of your database driven site (not necessarily WordPress) but each individual page returns a ‘404 Not Found’ error, check your .htaccess file. It’s not your database problem.
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can it support chinese character now?
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Jianjun reply on July 10th, 2008 4:15 pm:
Yup WordPress supports Chinese.
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So what am I looking for as this is exactly what is happening to me and I was about to do a database export, move to new server, etc to try and get this fixed.
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Hola, tengo un problema con mi blog WordPress NO tiene salida por Internet… ¿Qué sucede y que puedo hacer?
Gracias
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I have exactly the same problem…but I can’t find the .htaccess file - not too good with databases! Where do I find it??
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Jianjun reply on February 6th, 2009 3:56 pm:
The .htaccess file should be under the ROOT directory. Your host should be able to help locate it. Good luck.
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I’m having the same problems on a WP-based website I’m building… .htaccess file is fine, it looks exactly the same as in another WP blog I have. Any thoughts?
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Oh man, this post saved my life! Thank you for this.. I had the same problem and was beginning to freak out.
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In my case after a move of my site, I checked and double checked and it was NOT the .htaccess
instead, the new apache httpd.conf had:
AllowOverride None
I changed it to:
AllowOverride All
and did an apache stop/start. Problem solved, and the .htaccess started applying again.
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Thanks for this. I only wish I would have found your post before trying everything else. I have posted your link in delicious in hopes that the next guy will find it sooner. Thanks again, Bg
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