WordPress, GoDaddy, Permalinks, and 404’s
I assumed turning on permalinks in WordPress 2.1 would be as easy as selecting the radio button and clicking update. Little did I know I would be looking at 404 pages for 2 hours. After extensive research I came to the conclusion that there isn’t any known solution to this problem. I have read many posts that say different things. Having lost all hope of fixing this error I decided to close my browser window and start all over. I opened my browser again, went to www.joshstauffer.com, clicked on ‘About‘, and viola!… Permalinks now work! Why? I don’t know.
Solution: If you would like to use permalinks and you are using GoDaddy for hosting, all you must do is turn permalinks on and wait. I am not sure how long to wait but rest assured the permalinks will begin to work after a short period of time.
Jacob Santos:
Wow. That is interesting problem. I wonder if it had to do with how they set up apache and mod_rewrite. Which it isn’t, it is a .htaccess file.
Posted on May 20th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Jeremia Froyland:
Had the same problem here. Turned on permalinks nothing worked for about an hour and then bam, they’re up and running. Also, I agree with what Jacob said, I believe that on GoDaddy’s end they just have some lag time with the server updating.
Posted on May 20th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Yarn:
Hello,
i setup permalink and i’m waiting it.
i hope it will work.
Posted on July 1st, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Daniel:
I’m going to give a try. Damn Godaddy!!
Posted on July 26th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Niall Doherty » Blog » Blog Archive » Building ndoherty.com (part 1):
[...] The solution? Wait a while. [...]
Posted on July 31st, 2007 at 1:35 pm
smaxor:
Thanks for the info turning it on myself as well. I’d assume that as we didn’t hear back from the people that said they did it’s going to work
Posted on August 14th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
asdqweda:
Solution: If you would like to use permalinks and you are using GoDaddy for hosting, all you must do is turn permalinks on and wait. I am not sure how long to wait but rest assured the permalinks will begin to work after a short period of time.
I tried it, you are right, just wait a little while, Economy Deluxe, doesn’t matter.
Posted on September 1st, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Finally, I got my wordpress blog work - My Thoughts and My Life:
[...] of the configuration is to make permalinks work. After a long time of struggle, I finally found this article on the net. The solution [...]
Posted on September 20th, 2007 at 11:35 am
NP:
New .htaccess files are only processed once per hour (however updates to existing .htaccess files should be immediate). You should only have to wait about sixty minutes if you didnt have a .htaccess file before, according to the GoDaddy FAQ on the subject.
Posted on October 30th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
tanya:
Yes, waited about 20-30 mins and now everything works! thanks
Posted on November 3rd, 2007 at 10:12 pm
Viviane:
Thanks for posting about this! I was already thinking I had to use ugly links.
Posted on November 20th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Jason Butler:
Hey Josh… I was in the same boat as you. After reading your article I waited and it worked!!! Thanks bunches!
Posted on January 12th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Tara:
The wait is the key - thanks!
Posted on January 22nd, 2008 at 9:02 am
Douglas:
Another story of success! Thanks for the tip. JUST KEEP WAITING!
Posted on February 13th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
alicia:
THANK YOU!!! this has been befuddling me for quite some time - totally worked to wait.
Posted on February 17th, 2008 at 4:25 am
Sarah Lewis:
Thanks so much for sharing this… you kept me from panicking! Sure enough, 10 or 15 minutes later, everything worked perfectly.
Posted on March 11th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Andrew Miller:
Thank you! I was at wit’s end with this. GoDaddy doesn’t make this easy.
Posted on April 19th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Jan:
Cool post
. I am trying the same thing (on godaddy) because I am testing my own plug-in for WP… And I needed to change permalinks due to some minor bug in my plug-in (the Captcha-Godfather). it doesn’t work with permalinks which are different than default ones. Thus, I must wait and fix the bug…
Thanks!
Posted on May 12th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Alen:
Thanks for the tip. I was just about to close my nice permalinks
Posted on July 2nd, 2008 at 3:29 am
Alex:
Thank you for saving some hair on my balding head
Posted on July 12th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Stefan:
It works indeed! Thank you very much
Damn lag, I never suspected I’d have to wait for <60 minutes and always gave up.
Posted on July 14th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
`rolandinsh`:
I had the same problem, thaks to this post, I figured out that maybe that’s conected with DNS and it’s TTL. Ant It WAS, So to make it faster, go to Your DNS manager and change Your “A (Host)” and “CNAMES (Aliases)” www TTL value to 1/2 h. Then You’ll need to wait just 30 minutes
Posted on July 17th, 2008 at 3:01 pm