Question

I have moved a site from my test dev to a live server (its wordpress) and for some reason no matter what page I click on only the homepage loads.

Think I have narrowed it down to my htaccess file:

# 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

and this line in particular:

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

If I remove this or remove the htaccess completly I get a Forbidden 403 error.

I was hoping someone could help me figure this out?!

Answer 1

Turned out there were a bunch of random files in the root, with the FTP I only had access to the public_html. There were a number of htaccess files and other config files which we cleared out and it solved the problem.