Thread: Page Not Found When Using Any Custom Permalink Settings Except Default

Page Not Found When Using Any Custom Permalink Settings Except Default

So my Clipper install has a big "Page Not Found" in the guts of it, while the header, footer and side banners are there and functional. I have troubleshooted this to realize that this error will go away ONLY if I select the "default" radio button under the Permalinks options. Any, and I mean any, other pre-existing available option and the custom option will bring this error back. Naturally the default option is horrible for SEO and Clipper is not suppose to function this way.

I was simply trying to use the custom option of /%category%/%postname%/

Things I have done:
1. I have disabled any plugins, which I only had two.
2. I have changed the Permalink setting to try all options, saved, but the error continues as long as it's not on "default" no matter how many times I save it.
3. I have tried my .htaccess permissions to 644 and 755, same issue.
4. mod_rewrite is enabled on the server.
5. All other links in all other menu's showing function and redirect as they should.
6. Each time I change the Permalink settings, I can go in and see that whatever I have now selected has been saved to the database correctly.

I have my install directory set to /wp/ and homepage access to pull up when people visit the root, ie http://www.xxx.com/. This is verified and reflected in the database as well.


My .htaccess looks like:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) wp/$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ wp/$2 [L]
RewriteRule . index2.php [L]

Please advise, I cannot use my site as it stands and it has not worked properly from install.