404 error on protected pages – no redirect

Did you change your permalinks format after having chosen the Membership Options Page for s2Member? I’ve seen this cause 404s for one user in the past.

I suggest that you go pick the page again and save. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Membership Options Page[/hilite]

If that doesn’t work, could you please tell me what permalink format you’re using?

Thanks!

Hi there,

You will need to simply press the “Save All Changes” button at the bottom of your Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options page within your WordPress Dashboard. This will update your page’s URL and should fix your issue.

Hi,

I just took another look back through your posts and it appears that the problem lies in the fact that you have changed the permalinks on your blog. s2Member is not what’s sending the 404, but your site itself.

Try creating a new page (without changing your permalinks again) that requires s2Member level 1, log out, and try to access the new page. This should cause you to be redirected to the Membership Options Page, or at least redirect to the Membership Options Page’s old permalink, which will result still in 404.

Let us know how that goes.

Thanks for the info

Sounds to me like you have something wrong with your .htaccess file. Try resetting the file to WordPress’s defaults. Just edit the file via FTP with your favorite text editor, and replace the data within # BEGIN WordPress and # END WordPress with:

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

Make sure that if you have any other code within your .htaccess file it goes above this code. If you still have this issue, try deleting these other rules.

You may also want to check this out:

http://www.squidoo.com/wordpress-not-found-error-fix

If this does not solve your issue I’m afraid you may have to reinstall WordPress. s2Member does not have control over what is currently happening with your Permalinks.

You will not need to delete all of the files off of your FTP server, but a DROP of your SQL database and deletion of your wp-config.php file will be needed. This will reset all options that you have set up, and you will need to recreate all of your pages. If you already have several pages set up, it would probably be a good idea to save the data within each page so that you do not have to retype it all.

Sorry to hear that you couldn’t get it to work how you need,

You may want to post a thread on this in the WordPress forums, as this seems to be a fairly common occurrence in the general WordPress population.