Fiddled Wordpress htaccess, Got 404 on Internal Posts, Fixed It
Posted on March 18, 2008
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What a waste of an hour. I fiddled with the .htaccess file on one of my other blogs and for some reason every single post other than the home page was displaying a 404 error. Tried to find help by searching for things like 404 on all internal pages wordpress and 404 errors on all my wordpress posts +htaccess and largely found a lot of pompous wankery and duh… i dunno answers from supposed wordpress know-it-alls.
How To Fix
Eventually I found a “this might work” suggestion to reset my permalinks. I went into Options > Permalinks and hit “Update” without changing anything. Hey presto, my posts were back. Thanks to whoever suggested that.
And that’s how I solved my 404 Errors on Internal Posts after editing htaccess on my wordpress blog. I’d hate to think some poor surfer would get a worse user experience than the one I intended for them. Heck, a page full of ads is better than no page at all… and it converts a hell of a lot better, too!
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Great timing. Saved me a huge amount of trouble, thanks.
Hi Ben, glad you found it useful.