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I just wanted to give an update on this, long story short it’s fixed which is great.

I contacted the hosting support today and they told me there is an option in the hosting control panel and the option is called ‘sync .htaccess’
I had to change the permalinks on the WordPress website, then log into the control panel and click that button. And that’s it… job done!

On another note, I don’t think the hosting company is great. After I fixed up the permalinks, I went over to google console and did a fetch and render. After I did that the website has come to a standstill. I got onto support around 3.30pm GMT and still no reply.

Have to say though, great learning experience for a WordPress noob!

Thanks again for the reply and for the help 🙂

Hi there, and thanks for the reply!

I’ve made a small bit of progress but not there quite yet. I’ve spent the past 2 hours going through the hosts knowledgebase and make a little headway. It seems they ‘protect’ the user from altering these files as it could break the site. So they buried them away.
They gave the link how to get to the files at the users own risk.

So I found the .htaccess. It was nearly blank altogether. It only had #begin wordpress and #end wordpress, nothing else. I copy/pasted text I found on the net >>>

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

but still not happening. I really was hoping that would work. But how was the file blank though ?

Also from digging on the net it saws to check httpd.conf, that file I actually cant’ find at all, I’ve really searched everywhere.

Any more suggestions or will I contact the host tomorrow ?

Thanks very much again for your help, very much appreciated.

Focus