404 Broken Link Error page – File not found- permalinks

Today I was feeling great and saw 472000 search result of my name madhurie singh!

But the happiness did not last long when I found some of the links to my site were giving error : OOPS ! The Links is broken.
The page it takes the browser to is the dreaded 404 File Not Found!!!!

And the funny part is the link that takes me there was a page that I had never created i.e. www.madhuriesingh.com/tag/holiday !!!

Now I am wondering how on earth did this happen. What does this error mean?

Hmm this site explains it http://www.bloghighlight.com/broken-links-sinking-search-engine-rankings/ best.

http://www.bloghighlight.com/7-top-wordpress-seo-plugin-to-boost-blog-traffic/

SO I gave a search on 404 error tag link broken:

I see a great number of sites on the same error handling, so lemme start browsing and scanning for the best site:

The first site is http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_an_Error_404_Page.

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/273787

http://perishablepress.com/press/2008/12/31/redirect-all-broken-links-from-any-domain-via-htaccess/

http://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary

http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Using_.22Pretty.22_permalinks

http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#PATHINFO:_.22Almost_Pretty.22

http://www.lunarforums.com/lunarpages_webhosting_help/problem_with_wordpress_404-t47372.0.html

This site claims to resolver all 404 error s by uploading a php file classes.php and functions-post.php

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/54340

Ok after reading here and there, one important thing that I have found is that I need a mod_rewrite installed and working and the server able to read the htaccess file.

I checked my .htaccess file which is in the root directory. I use File Manager in Cpanel to view it even though its a hidden file.
Legacy File Manager does not show hidden files.

My .htaccess file is blank even though I have done changes in permalinks of all my blogs.
It just has this in it
# BEGIN WordPress

# END WordPress

So obviously I need to make sure it has at least the mod_rewrite function to make the necessary changes that I have set through the wordpress admin page to all my blogs!

Let me find out the reason for the .htaccess file not being written !

1. One common reason is that the file is not accessible by the wordpress admin page to make the changes in .htaccess file for desired permalinks.
So I will have to change the permissions to allow the wordpress to write the .htaccess file. So I change its permission to 666 not 777.

Now I changed the permalinks from /%year%/%month%/%date%/%post%/  to  /%index%

This is a great site for explaining the permalinks and how to solve errors because of permalinks:

http://www.articlesbase.com/communication-articles/when-wordpress-permalinks-404-42939.html.

If nothing works I will check this site later http://www.lunarforums.com/lunarpages_webhosting_help/problem_with_wordpress_404-t47372.0.html

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