permalinks in wordpress not working?
if some of you didnt notice, there was about a 2 day downtown on my server. i had a power outage one day and i wasnt at home, so the backup battery ran out and the server fell hard. i had numerous errors upon login with no answer to be found.
. . . R E L O A D !
i backed up my /var/www directory, my postfix main.conf file and /Maildir, and my databases. after the os was reinstalled, i uploaded and restored the files only to find out that this blog, and only this blog, was receiving 404 errors on every link that was not the home page. out of the 10 or so sites on this server, this is the only one… ugh.
so i started searching the endless unanswered forum posts on the wordpress website and found out that the 404 errors where caused by the “pretty” permalinks. so i started searching those fantastic forums again and finally came across one post that solved the problem.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/51613#post-333169
it pretty much says the mod_rewrite doesnt work in the .htaccess file and to move everything over to the apache2 virtual host file.
problem fixed!