WordPress is giving me 404 page not found for all pages except the homepage

Question

All of a sudden I go to my WordPress website and all the pages give me a 404 page not found page. I\'m assuming the problem lies with the permalink structure, which I could swea

Answer 1

.htaccess is a hidden file, so you must set all files as visible in your ftp.

I suggest you return your permalink structure to default ( ?p=ID ) so you ensure that .htaccess is the problem.

After that, you could simply set "month and name" structure again, and see if it works.

PS: Have you upgraded to 3.1? I've seen some people with plugin issues in this case.

Answer 2

IF all this dont work, your .htaccess is correct, and permalinks trick didnt work, you may have not enabled your apache2 rewite mod.

I ran this and my issue was solved:

 sudo a2enmod rewrite 

Answer 3

Basically the .htaccess file should exists and the httpd.conf should be correct.

In my case, I changed the file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf in section:

<Directory "/var/www/html">

Line changed is:

AllowOverride None

to

AllowOverride All

And restart the web server with

systemctl restart apache2

Answer 4

This error is causing due to disabled of rewrite mod in apache httpd.conf document ,just uncomment it and enjoy the seo friendly permalinks

Answer 5

You may have .htaccess disallowed in webhost settings. Setting to default permalinks would work in that case.

Answer 6

after 2 long days, the solution was to add options +FollowSymLinks to the top of my .htaccess file.