htaccess - WordPress pages break with custom permalink settings (theme directory not output)

We have a site under development which works fine locally, however when uploaded to our server using the permalink settings %postname% the correct URLs are rendered in the menu but in all pages other than home no WP theme URL is output

for example: / works fine / does not output the theme directory so renders unstyled HTML

This works fine under default settings p?=123 etc but we need proper URLs.

This is hosted with 123-reg who don't believe there is a server issue - previously similar has happened if .htaccess is not being read by the server but I'm told this is not the case.

Any help appreciated!

We have a site under development which works fine locally, however when uploaded to our server using the permalink settings %postname% the correct URLs are rendered in the menu but in all pages other than home no WP theme URL is output

for example: http://distinctivepeople.co.uk/wp/ works fine http://distinctivepeople.co.uk/wp/who-we-are/ does not output the theme directory so renders unstyled HTML

This works fine under default settings p?=123 etc but we need proper URLs.

This is hosted with 123-reg who don't believe there is a server issue - previously similar has happened if .htaccess is not being read by the server but I'm told this is not the case.

Any help appreciated!

• permalinks
• htaccess

Share Improve this question asked Oct 14, 2016 at 15:08 Andy KleemanAndy Kleeman 2311 silver badge33 bronze badges 14

• How have you included your stylesheet link? – Andy Macaulay-Brook Commented Oct 14, 2016 at 15:16
• It's a css problem, look at your source code, it's look like the theme path wasn't set. – Benoti Commented Oct 14, 2016 at 15:19
• <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/assets/css/dp.css" media="all" /> – Andy Kleeman Commented Oct 14, 2016 at 15:19
• it is set. as above, see the homepage - works fine, also works on these pages under default permalink settings but not for custom settings – Andy Kleeman Commented Oct 14, 2016 at 15:20
• it's getting the index file from the root instead of any files from the theme directory when these permalink settings are set – Andy Kleeman Commented Oct 14, 2016 at 15:25

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This was resolved with the help of @AndyMacaulay-Brook

The htaccess had some incorrect (non-wp declarations) which when removed solved the issue:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> 
RewriteEngine On 
RewriteBase / 
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteRule . /index.php [L] 
</IfModule> 

# BEGIN WordPress 
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> 
RewriteEngine On 
RewriteBase /wp/ 
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteRule . /wp/index.php [L] 
</IfModule> 
# END WordPress 

Removing everything outside of the WP declarations fixed the issue