Second and subsequent archive pages not loading

[krystyn]

When going to this site, and viewing a months' archives (for example: http://www.buriedwithchildren.com/2010/05/) The first page loads fine, however, the second page (which clicking the "older posts" link at the bottom) results in a 404 error.

I deactivated the plugins, so it doesn't seem to be an issue there. Has anybody seen this before and/or know how to fix it? I looked at the wordpress codex and I found things from years ago and people using custom php for pages, but this is just the default archives page.

 

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[purplepatriot]

Hi krystyn,

Has this the "older posts" functionality worked previously - as far as you know? Or could it have been an issue all along? (Just trying to figure out if it could be linked to some other action.)

Also, what are the Permalinks settings set for currently?

I've got a couple ideas, but let's start there.

Thanks!
Eric

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Eric @ Coolwater Creative – “Take a leap. Make a splash. Ripple the pond.”
“Never sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate.” – Give back and help out in the forums.

[krystyn]

Thanks, Eric. As far as I know, it has never worked.

I've also checked to make sure that page counts=10 to see if that helped.

 

The permalink is set to: http://www.buriedwithchildren.com/sample-post/

When I change the permalink structure to the default, those pages and subsequent pages work

http://www.buriedwithchildren.com/?m=201004
http://www.buriedwithchildren.com/?m=201004&paged=2

 

So, I'm thinking (based on more checking) is that there is something on the server/hosting side that isn't correct with mod_rewrite enabled?

[purplepatriot]

If you change Permalinks back to the custom setting, I'm guessing they won't work again?

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Eric @ Coolwater Creative – “Take a leap. Make a splash. Ripple the pond.”
“Never sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate.” – Give back and help out in the forums.

[krystyn]

You are correct, changing them back to custom makes them not work again.

 

Also, this was an issue with a previous theme (thesis) as well.

[purplepatriot]

Can you FTP to the site, pull down a copy of .htaccess (just so you have a copy), then delete .htaccess from the server, go back to Permalinks and set to custom and save again and see if that helps?

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Eric @ Coolwater Creative – “Take a leap. Make a splash. Ripple the pond.”
“Never sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate.” – Give back and help out in the forums.

[krystyn]

Yes, I can do that....I'm worried about the first line in the file (I'm helping somebody out and I'm not sure why it's there)?

RedirectMatch permanent ^/[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/([a-z0-9a-]+) http://buriedwithchildren.com/$1
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

[krystyn]

Hmmm..I deleted that first line and everything works. I wonder if we can figure out why the heck it's there.

[purplepatriot]

Not sure. But everything works? Yay!!

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Eric @ Coolwater Creative – “Take a leap. Make a splash. Ripple the pond.”
“Never sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate.” – Give back and help out in the forums.

[krystyn]

I *think* so. I think it's an old redirect from moving to blogger years ago!

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