Permalinks going 404

  • Resolved nnh001

    (@nnh001)


    14 years, 6 months ago

    New to WordPress and a new installation so just working my way around it! Theme is Atahualpa 3.7.1

    Installed ok, directory is /news/, permalinks>custom: /news/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/

    .htaccess updated…

    None of the links on the site work they all go to error 404. New posts appear as: Not Found
    Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.

    If I change permalinks to default, posts appear but all site links point to root directory and are still not found!

    What am I doing wrong? What do I need to change.

    Thank in advance…

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  • Christi Nickerson

    (@christini)

    14 years, 6 months ago

    Hi nnh001,

    Since you installed WordPress in the /news directory, there is no need to specify it in your Permalinks structure. Try /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ instead.

    Hope this helps!

    Thread Starter nnh001

    (@nnh001)

    14 years, 6 months ago

    No that’s the same as default, all links go to root directory (home page), pages not found..

    I have put it back to default: /?p=123. But it still doesn’t appear to know that the installation is in a directory called /news/!!?

    Thread Starter nnh001

    (@nnh001)

    14 years, 6 months ago

    Ok a little further on, it was confused as to the directory it was installed in!! So I had to tell it by making the Site address the same as WordPress address!! Settings>General>Site Address(URL).

    This got rid of directory structure problems however the posts are not being created in the directory where they should be, so still 404!!

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 6 months ago

    WordPress doesn’t store posts as files in a directory. They are all stored in your database. Did you change the name of the WordPress folder after you installed it?

    Thread Starter nnh001

    (@nnh001)

    14 years, 6 months ago

    No, I have got it though, so for reference for others:

    I installed in a sub directory not the root so: http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

    But this wasn’t quite correct as I had to change the Site address (URL) to the installation directory, not the root as detailed!!

    Good job I hadn’t used php in the root already for index.php…Anyone know what to do if I had???…Surpose it wouldn’t of made very much difference to the file anyway?!

    Thankyou to those who tried to help me with this 🙂

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