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very weird things happening to my permalinks. its showing me 404 error when i switch to permalinks then when i change to default and then back to permalinks its fine until i actually edit url to specific page then its all goes 404 so when I repeat changing to default and back to permalinks its all fine again. Its even happening when i try to add new page Its never happen before it cannot be the server settings cos i run several WP sites on that server and the rest are fine.

Here is my .htaccess

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

Many thanks for help

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I also noticed that when that's happening my .htaccess embeds and extra rule so it looks as follows: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> # 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 Any idea anyone – jmysona Sep 9 '11 at 17:28
get rid of the .htaccess rules you have pasted in there and just let WordPress add them when you edit your permalink settings. WP looks for # BEGIN WordPress and # END WordPress to add its own rules. – Milo Sep 9 '11 at 18:02
Thanks Milo, could you be more specific, sorry i didn't really get it – jmysona Sep 9 '11 at 18:31

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This weird problem I also faced, don't know how it came, but I tried this solution and it worked for me.

http://webstutorial.com/wordpress-publish-new-post-redirecting-to-homepage-while-saving-edited-code-redirecting-to-home-page/content-management-system-cms

But in my case scenario was not exactly same, my some pages were giving me 404 and editing any theme and post used to give me 404.

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i found one solution which isnt perfect but it works when i add /index.php/%postname% to permalinks it works fine but obviously now i'm getting this sort of URL's /index.php/lifec/about-us – jmysona Sep 9 '11 at 18:30
@jmysona the thing which you are doing is known as pretty permalinks, now I found the solution to your problem, email your hosting people to enable mod_rewrite fully, currently its enabled or may be not check with your hosting people – ntechi Sep 10 '11 at 4:44
as i mentioned above its not server issue as I'm hosting several Wordpress websites on that server and all of them don't have any issue only that one – jmysona Sep 10 '11 at 8:15
can you paste here your permalink structure, that you are using – ntechi Sep 10 '11 at 10:45

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