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wordpress permalink issues

by katie9143
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Hi all....
I am pretty new to wordpress and tried to find the answers to this on the wordpress forum with no avail so far, so i thought i would try here...

i tried changing my wordpress permalinks to a custom structure based on this command -

/%category%/%postname%/

it seemed to work well on all my pages except my blog page....the site is all in wordpress with several pages, the last being our actual blog. so after changing the permalinks and clicking either from my nav or going straight to /blog/ there was nothing there. if i typed in the old url verson with the ? and all that, the blog was there. i thought perhaps activating the redirection plug in and setting up a redirect would do the trick, but that didnt work either. so i put it back the way it was...

any thoughts??

tia
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  • Profile picture of the author Aaarrrggghhh
    You say this:

    /%category%/%postname%/

    remove the / after %postname%

    so it should be like this:
    /%category%/%postname%

    Try that
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    • Profile picture of the author katie9143
      Originally Posted by Aaarrrggghhh View Post

      You say this:

      /%category%/%postname%/

      remove the / after %postname%

      so it should be like this:
      /%category%/%postname%

      Try that
      really? even tho it worked on all my pages except the blog???

      im totally game to try anything tho if it is that easy i will be super happy!

      thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author HJ-Andrew
    Katie, I think that may work, what ARGHHHHH suggested.
    However if it does not solve your issue you can have our maintenance team look at it and knock it out quickly for you.
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    • Profile picture of the author katie9143
      crap it didnt work...

      my website is labelle-wastesystems . com - if anyone wants to take a look....maybe there is something obvious?

      i did change it back to the default, this time when i tried it without the / i got "internet expl cannot display the webpage"....last time when i did use the / i believe i just got a totally blank white page of nothing :confused:
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      • Profile picture of the author Aaarrrggghhh
        Originally Posted by katie9143 View Post

        crap it didnt work...

        my website is labelle-wastesystems . com - if anyone wants to take a look....maybe there is something obvious?

        i did change it back to the default, this time when i tried it without the / i got "internet expl cannot display the webpage"....last time when i did use the / i believe i just got a totally blank white page of nothing :confused:
        What concerns me is this statement:
        "i just got a totally blank white page of nothing"

        I had that happen to me once and it was a corrupted database. Now, it could be anything causing that but it sounds to me like you may have gotten the WordPress WHITE PAGE OF DEATH. Seriously tho, is this something you can afford to do a new install for?

        You can google "wordpress white page" or "wordpress blank page"

        I personally would do a fresh install and be done with it.

        Sorry.
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  • Profile picture of the author igniz
    IMHO, i check your site... you can repair that one... using the link Pages tool of wordpress.
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    • Profile picture of the author katie9143
      Originally Posted by igniz View Post

      IMHO, i check your site... you can repair that one... using the link Pages tool of wordpress.
      is that a plugin?
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  • Profile picture of the author NowIstheTime
    IMHO ... NO FRESH INSTALL REQUIRED

    I've seen this happen all the time when the .htaccess file (should be located at the root directory for labelle-wastesystems.com) is not writeable by wordpress.

    Do you see a message in the permalinks page that tells you to update the .htaccess file, when you make any changes? You should not.. this means that wordpress cannot make the changes itself (i.e. cannot write to the file).

    Try changing the permissions on this file to 777, and it should work like a charm.
    Send me a PM if you would like help with this...
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    • Profile picture of the author katie9143
      Originally Posted by NowIstheTime View Post

      IMHO ... NO FRESH INSTALL REQUIRED

      I've seen this happen all the time when the .htaccess file (should be located at the root directory for labelle-wastesystems.com) is not writeable by wordpress.

      Do you see a message in the permalinks page that tells you to update the .htaccess file, when you make any changes? You should not.. this means that wordpress cannot make the changes itself (i.e. cannot write to the file).

      Try changing the permissions on this file to 777, and it should work like a charm.
      Send me a PM if you would like help with this...
      see i didnt get any message about the .htaccess file when i changed it and i totally expected to! let me try changing the persmission to 777, i think i know how to do that.
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      • Profile picture of the author NowIstheTime
        Originally Posted by katie9143 View Post

        see i didnt get any message about the .htaccess file when i changed it and i totally expected to! let me try changing the persmission to 777, i think i know how to do that.
        If it works.. then try setting the .htaccess file to 666. I don't BELIEVE the .htaccess file needs to be 'executed' by the web server, so the extra '1' per digit in the permissions may be redundant.
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        • Profile picture of the author katie9143
          I feel like I am so close here....its really odd, but when I went back in to try all these things (the first one i tried was using this %category%/%postname% and the just this %postname% - since i really dont use categories anyway), THIS time it did tell me to update the .htaccess file, which actually didnt even exist, so I created the file using the code given and then uploaded it to the wp-content folder. That still didnt work...

          Next I tried going into the general settings to look to see that the url to the directory and the blog are correct, they are both the main url /labelle-wastesystems . com - so in my confusion between a "post" and a "blog" i changed the Blog Address (url) line to this /labelle-wastesystems . com/blog and saved. When I did that all of a sudden I thought I had fixed my problem....when i clicked "blog" on my sites nav it did indeed get my blog page. Then I realized, with the exception of my "home" page, all the other pages on my site were now .com/blog/whateverthepagename.....and the actual blog page is .com/blog/blog which is not what i was going for.

          Last i tried changing the permission of the .htaccess file to 777, which seemed to have no effect on anything.

          So....I really hope I dont have to do a fresh install I didnt install this site on my own to begin with and although i do have a basic knowledge of all these things, that scares the CRAP outta me lol. It is a totally blank, white page that I get when i use the command code /%category%/%postname%/ - llike i originally did. I am not sure why when i remove either the first or the last back slash, i then dont get the blank white, i then get the "internet explorer cannot display the webpage".

          If anyone has any other ideas for me I am sooooo open to try them and I really appreciate everyone that has already tried to help!! Thanks!
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          • Profile picture of the author Susan Hope
            Originally Posted by katie9143 View Post

            THIS time it did tell me to update the .htaccess file, which actually didnt even exist, so I created the file using the code given and then uploaded it to the wp-content folder.
            Katie,

            I think the .htaccess should have gone in the folder above wp-content, e.g.

            According to you quoted above, you put it here:

            labelle-wastesystems . com/wp-content which really is

            public_html/wp-content and it ought to be in:

            public_html

            See Screenshot of my site below:



            Hope that helps a bit

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            • Profile picture of the author katie9143
              thanks to everyone who helped me ... nowisthetime ended up walking me through a million things til we figured it all out....yes i did have the htaccess file in the wrong place, but in the end it came down to it not liking the slug that i was using for the page which was blog....weird huh? so we created a new blog page calling it updates, pointed the blog posts there and trashed the old blog page. now everything works like a charm. wordpress can be so incredibly odd (imo)

              thanks again
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  • Profile picture of the author smoke.sessions
    I don't think a fresh install is necessary. In the admin panel, go to the options area and make sure that the URL to your blog and the WordPress directory is correct. There will be Settings or Options near the bottom of the sidebar in the admin panel.

    Just double checked, and it's in the Settings > General section.

    If this doesn't work, try this for the custom permalink structure:
    %category%/%postname%

    Although, I always do not include the category name, it's better for SEO I believe. If you want to do it my way, I only include %postname% in the custom permalink structure box.

    If all else fails, the post above me would be the next best bet. Hope this helps!
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  • Profile picture of the author smoke.sessions
    Maybe you should try reinstalling WP. It's pretty simple, if you need help, I can do it the correct way. Please PM me.
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  • Profile picture of the author smoke.sessions
    Great, glad you got it figured out!
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