Wordpress: all links redirect to home page

Question

yesterday i moved a customer website to my server, everything went fine except for the fact that all menu links redirect to the home page.

i already tried deactivating all plugins, checked the .htaccess and activated the default theme.

basically the page is a 1:1 copy of the previously working page on the old server, the apache log says on every link 301 redirect…

"GET /index.php HTTP/1.0" 301 339 " http://quartieracht.de/property-status/kauf-haus/ " "Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 8_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Mobile/12F69 Safari/600.1.4"

the funny part is: i did a second copy of the webspace here: http://test.teamnifty.com , its the same server and it works. so i thought i might just move the whole thing to the quartieracht.de folder and change the domain name in the database, but still the same problem…

i would really appreciate a good tip :-/

thanks…

Answer 1

1. Log into the WordPress Dashboard.
2. In the side panel, go to Settings > Permalinks.
3. Make note of the current setting. (If you are using a custom structure, copy or save the custom structure somewhere.)
4. Select the Default option.
5. Click Save Changes.
6. Now select the previous setting you had before Default was selected.
7. Click Save Changes.