Fix for Broken Permalinks after WordPress Server Move
Posted by Matt | Filed under Web Development, Wordpress
The Permalink Problem
I recently moved a few WordPress 2.8.x sites from one server to another. Oddly, when clicking on individual blog entries, every one of them threw a 404 after restoring onto the new server. Index page was fine. Admin pages were fine. But any specific blog page was 404′ing. Hmm.
The Permalink Fix
Admin -> Settings -> Permalinks and clicked Default, then back to Month and name. That’s it.
My Suspicions
I really have no idea, and I don’t have time to investigate. Was it specifically the act of restoring the database (server environment agnostic)? Or was it the other way ’round? Or some other cause?
Tags: database, database restore, Permalinks, server switch, Wordpress