Help with wordpress Url issue

by lmeyer
2 replies
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Hello,

I am setting up an already designed site to make it better for SEO. Right now it is just the site that is set up, without any purposefull SEO like meta tags but is full of rich content

It is set up as a static site, with static pages and one page set up for blog updates.

When I try to change the permalinks to /%postname%/, I get and error on a couple of pages that says "an error occurred while processing this directive" and a couple of other pages lose formatting completely. I am sure that it was the adding postname, because I backtracked from adding in plugins and that was the only thing that changed it. There has been a lot of work done on this site, and I am trying to play it cautiously.


Does anyone have any suggestions? If you send me PM I can show you the pages.

THANK YOU FOR HELPING!!

Lucas
#issue #url #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Bruce Hearder
    Try removing (or renaming ) your existing .htaccess file and see if that makes a difference.

    It might contain something that maybe conflicting with the permalink structure

    Hope this helps

    Bruce
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  • Profile picture of the author coog
    I have to agree with Bruce, sounds like an .htaccess problem. try adding this to your .htaccess:
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>
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