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Brandon Brigham
Brandon Brigham
3,716 Points
Posted by Brandon Brigham
Brandon Brigham
3,716 Points

Can't upload media to WordPress site and permalinks don't work

So I have a site that I'm working on @ http://axrtek.com and I have TWO issues:

(1) I am unable to upload media to the site after migrating it to a new host/server. The host is iWeb.

When I try to upload media to the site via WordPress I get the following error:

"The uploaded file could not be moved to wp-content/uploads/2014/11."

(2) My pages disappear when changing the permalinks to anything other than 'Default'.

I found a way to display other pages however by creating a 'Custom Structure' permalink that has index.php in it. It is this:

/index.php/%postname%

I want to get rid of index.php before every page on my site.

Any ideas???

Thanks!

Hugo Paz
Hugo Paz
15,622 Points
Hugo Paz
Hugo Paz
15,622 Points

Hi Brandon,

When you migrated your site, did you follow these steps?

Brandon Brigham
Brandon Brigham
3,716 Points
Brandon Brigham
Brandon Brigham
3,716 Points

Hey Hugo,

Yes I followed those steps basically. So I figured out the uploading images to the server was a permission issue. I solved it by changing the upload folder and its subfolders permissions to 777.

Now what I'm stuck on is the permalinks issue. My permalinks on axrtek.com read (as an example) axrtek.com/index.php/cloud-services.

Basically, my pages (other than the home page) only show up when using this custom permalink structure (/index.php/%postname%) or when permalinks are set to default.

I'd like to get rid of the index.php in all of my page url's...

Hugo Paz
Hugo Paz
15,622 Points
Hugo Paz
Hugo Paz
15,622 Points

Try changing your permalinks to:

Custom Structure: /%postname%/

Do not add the domain or index.php

Also check if your URLs are correct in Settings > general

Brandon Brigham
Brandon Brigham
3,716 Points
Brandon Brigham
Brandon Brigham
3,716 Points

I tried putting just "/%postname%/" into Custom Structure but pages still did not show up - URL's are correct in Settings > General

2 Answers

Muhammad Mohsen
Muhammad Mohsen
Courses Plus Student 10,843 Points

Hi Brandon,

It sounds like you have permissions issue, wp-content/uploads should be writable.

permalink issue: Can you please post your htaccess content here? it seems permissions issue too, when you update your permalink via your admin cp, it's not really updating in htaccess.

Brandon Brigham
Brandon Brigham
3,716 Points
Brandon Brigham
Brandon Brigham
3,716 Points

Hi Muhammad,

I just opened the htaccess file and it is completely blank.... Not sure why that is

Brandon Brigham
Brandon Brigham
3,716 Points
Brandon Brigham
Brandon Brigham
3,716 Points

Thanks Muhammad,

So for some reason the htaccess file was completely blank so I went in and added the following WordPress script to the file:

BEGIN WordPress

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

END WordPress

Now my permalinks work on the 'Post Name' option

Muhammad Mohsen
Muhammad Mohsen
Courses Plus Student 10,843 Points

Great, what about uploading issue?