Title: multiple 400 bad request errors Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # multiple 400 bad request errors * [adrienherbert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adrienherbert/) * (@adrienherbert) * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-400-bad-request-errors/) * I am getting bad request errors everywhere on my site. From the homepage / post to ‘leave a comment’, from dashboard to ‘view’ or ‘view post’. Using the ‘view site’ link works and the first page/post is published and I also have legal notices published but I am unable to create comments or view a page which I’ve published going from the dashboard. * Can anyone advise? Is it a database issue? how can I resolve it? * Thanks Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-400-bad-request-errors/#post-5272932) * Try deactivating all plugins. If that resolves the issue, reactivate each one individually until you find the cause. * If that does not resolve the issue, try switching to the Twenty Fourteen theme to rule-out a theme-specific issue (theme functions can interfere like plugins). * If that does not resolve the issue, it’s possible that a `.htaccess` rule could be the source of the problem. To check for this, access your server via FTP or SFTP and rename the `.htaccess` file. If you can’t find a `.htaccess` file, make sure that you have set your FTP or SFTP client to view invisible files. * Thread Starter [adrienherbert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adrienherbert/) * (@adrienherbert) * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-400-bad-request-errors/#post-5273018) * Thanks for the advice James – I have already tried to resolve the issue (which has only manifested itself in the site that I have created from scratch in the Twenty Fourteen theme – the other site I have was created in Twenty Eleven) by turning off all the plugins. When I deactivated all the plugins I still had no use of the links which still returned the ‘bad request’ error. * One thing I was worried about when setting up the site was the .htaccess file which I located in the wp-database folder under the content folder for the site but I got to that result in a slightly different way to the process I had followed when setting up the site in Twenty Eleven. * Are you able to give me a little more guidance on the .htaccess issue? I am hoping that I won’t need to go back to square one or that if I do, I can work out how to strip away all the db files and can effect a ‘clean’ re-install. * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-400-bad-request-errors/#post-5273042) * > Are you able to give me a little more guidance on the .htaccess issue? * Have you tried renaming the file yet as directed above? This is referring to the `.htaccess` file in the same directory as WordPress’s main `index.php` file. We need to know if that makes a difference before we proceed any further. * Thread Starter [adrienherbert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adrienherbert/) * (@adrienherbert) * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-400-bad-request-errors/#post-5273094) * James hi * Thanks for your help. * I wasn’t quite sure what you meant by: * ‘If that does not resolve the issue, it’s possible that a .htaccess rule could be the source of the problem. To check for this, access your server via FTP or SFTP and rename the .htaccess file. If you can’t find a .htaccess file, make sure that you have set your FTP or SFTP client to view invisible files.’ * I currently have .htaccess file in public_html/domain_name/wp-content/backup- db having followed the instructions of a guide to WP design which starts from a position of using the Twenty Eleven theme for the initial set up and design– I am wondering whether this is creating a conflict with the Twenty Fourteen theme in some way? I have loaded additional (social media linkage) plugins which aren’t working either. * Hope that you, or anyone else coming across this topic can advise me – very much the ‘rookie’ blogger. * Thanks * Thread Starter [adrienherbert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adrienherbert/) * (@adrienherbert) * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-400-bad-request-errors/#post-5273095) * Oh – the File Manager (FTP site?) in my cPanel has the ‘view invisible files’ option checked. * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-400-bad-request-errors/#post-5273099) * I mean the `.htaccess` file in your root directory, at `/public_html/domain_name/. htaccess` * Thread Starter [adrienherbert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adrienherbert/) * (@adrienherbert) * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-400-bad-request-errors/#post-5273106) * When I checked the files before (when trying to resolve this issue) I found an‘. htaccess’ file at that level and wondered if I had incorrectly located the .htaccess file that I had previously moved there. I moved that file to the folder I had been instructed to move it to (by my WP book) leaving no .htaccess file at the level that you mention. * I have therefore copied back the moved file and renamed it .htaccess1. This has not resolved the problem (I may just have confused the entire build I realise). * Apologies – I am somewhat in the dark – a beginner, as I say. * Any thoughts? (keep them clean please!) ; ) * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-400-bad-request-errors/#post-5273107) * Ok, so there was until 6 hours ago, no `.htaccess` file in your root directory, at `/public_html/domain_name/.htaccess`? * If so, please remove the file you just moved there. `.htaccess` files are just text files that contain rules which govern how files operate in certainly directories, so moving or copying a file from another directory probably made things worse. * At this point, I recommend getting in touch with your hosting provider. They should have access to tools which will identify the problem more quickly than the guesswork we can do here. Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘multiple 400 bad request errors’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [bad links](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/bad-links/) * [bad requests](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/bad-requests/) * [database issues](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database-issues/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 8 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * Last activity: [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-400-bad-request-errors/#post-5273107) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics