Today when I was installing a wp-cach plugin i noticed that ALL my sites across all databases and domains are now showing a 404 error on ALL internal links on my wordpress sites. For example look at the internal links here on one of my sites http://www.bodybuildingweb.net/blog/ And whats weird is my forum still works and the front pages of these wordpress driven sites. I don't understand why this is happening, i contacted their support, but I need help now in the meantime.
BTW I checked my site bodybuildingweb.net (one of the domains on this account) on IWEBTOOLs http://www.iwebtool.com/server_status?domain=www.bodybuildingweb.net Server Status for www.bodybuildingweb.net: HTTP: The website is accessible! FTP: Connected to the FTP! MAIL (Pop3): Pop3 connected successfully! MAIL (SMTP): Failed connecting to SMTP MySQL: MySQL seems to be working!
I disabled it. didn't fix it. Then I deleted the files. still didn't fix it. Nothing is working. Keep in mind I just put it on ONE site (my a's blog). All my add on domains sites using wordpress are giving me 404 errors now. I even deleted one of my sites database and then reinstalled it to see if it would work and it didn't.
i don't think its the wp-cach plugin cause i have seperate databases for all my sites and i only installed it in one site, plus I think i seen the same errors in my error log before i installed the cache plugin
yes the .htaccess files today i noticed there were some blank ones added to all the domains. The thing is though i never added those there, there was only two .htaccess in my entire account before that. One in the root and one for the bodybuildingweb (because its on a /blog directory so it needed its own .htaccess to work and its not blank). Here is a portion of the error log from cpanl [Sun Jan 27 23:01:47 2008] [error] [client 67.150.143.92] File does not exist: /home/pjorstad/public_html/favicon.ico [Sun Jan 27 23:01:46 2008] [error] [client 69.108.89.120] File does not exist: /home/pjorstad/public_html/funnystuffblog/page/2/ [Sun Jan 27 23:01:46 2008] [error] [client 67.150.143.92] File does not exist: /home/pjorstad/public_html/about-us/ [Sun Jan 27 23:01:45 2008] [error] [client 206.222.10.186] File does not exist: /home/pjorstad/public_html/oaklandathletics1/feed/ [Sun Jan 27 23:01:43 2008] [error] [client 208.111.154.96] File does not exist: /home/pjorstad/public_html/bodybuildingweb/blog/cardio-necessary-for-effective-fat-loss [Sun Jan 27 23:01:27 2008] [error] [client 67.150.143.92] File does not exist: /home/pjorstad/public_html/about-us/
OK I put the permalinks to default and it was working on my bodybuilding site. I don't understand why the redirects stopped working(the .htaccess file hasn't change) neither has the .htaccess file in the root domain (remember im on a multi-domain hosting account using add-on domains). The only thing i see different is the blank .htaccess files under the other domains.
I got the problem sovled, i think an admin went in there and changed things. support helped me figure out i needed a line of coded added to the top (RewriteENGINE on )