Random permalinks error

  • philmanners42

    (@philmanners42)


    9 years, 6 months ago

    [ Moderator note: moved to How-to and Troubleshooting. ]

    Hi all

    I’ve been having a pretty random problem with a couple of my WordPress sites.

    With some sites, the homepage is working fine, but then all other pages go to a 404. Even entering site.com/admin goes to a 404, you HAVE to type out site.com/wp-login.php.
    The problem is resolved by going to Settings -> Permalinks and clicking Save without making any changes to the permalink structure. Magically all pages work fine again.

    Has anybody else had this problem, and if so how do I prevent it from happening?

    As I said, the error strikes randomly and often happens on sites where we haven’t made any changes in quite some time.

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  • johnpaulb

    (@johnpaulb)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    Hello philmanners42,

    I have seen this type of issue caused by custom .htaccess coding. I recommend reviewing your .htaccess file for anything that looks unusual. You can view the default WordPress .htaccess rules here:
    https://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/htaccess

    Hope this helps,
    John-Paul

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