Unable to get /%postname%/ permalinks working, 404 on all links

This is going to sound crazy, but the following worked… I put the content in the following directory: /var/www/myexamplesite.com/public_html (and created log/ as well) Along with the following entry in httpd.conf <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAlias www.myexamplesite.com myexamplesite.com DocumentRoot /var/www/myexamplesite.com/public_html ServerName www.myexamplesite.com # Log file locations LogLevel warn ErrorLog /var/www/myexamplesite.com/log/error.log CustomLog /var/www/myexamplesite.com/log/access.log combined <Directory /var/www/myexamplesite.com/public_html> <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> … Read more

WordPress continually requests pages from itself

Impossible to guess, that’s certainly not a native WP behavior. If the requests are indeed being made by WP’s API you could hook into it and log what is happening to have more insight into the issue. pre_http_request should be a fitting hook everything of the kind passes through, as far as I remember.

Redirect old domain with query paramaters

The old domain is: www.example.com/newspage.asp?m=4&y=2015 and I need that URL, as well as that URL with different query paramaters to go to: example.com/news. So, you are also changing the host with this redirect (www subdomain to bare domain)? Otherwise, it just looks like you can ignore the query string. This is relatively trivial to do … Read more