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Colton Plumley
4,468 Pointspermalink settings
My pages generate when the permalink settings is set to default; however, when I change the setting to any of the others the links break and I receive a 404 message. I cannot find any possible solutions. Any one know what is going on?
4 Answers
Kyle Binger
3,357 PointsI am also having this same problem and have applied the .htaccess fix to no avail, any other guesses as to why this is not working?
Ryan Duchene
Courses Plus Student 46,022 PointsWild guess here, but I'll bet your .htaccess file is missing. Download this file and place it in the root WordPress folder (so, right next to wp-config.php, wp-login.php, xmlrpc.php, and all those other files). If it doesn't work, come back and and we'll try to debug it more together. :)
Colton Plumley
4,468 PointsI am still receiving the same error code. I have put the .htaccess in the root wordpress folder as shown:
{{$Username}}$ ls -a
. wp-admin wp-links-opml.php
.. wp-blog-header.php wp-load.php
.DS_Store wp-comments-post.php wp-login.php
.htaccess wp-config-sample.php wp-mail.php
index.php wp-config.php wp-settings.php
license.txt wp-content wp-signup.php
readme.html wp-cron.php wp-trackback.php
wp-activate.php wp-includes xmlrpc.php
I copied the .htaccess file exactly as it was in the dropbox. Any other ideas? Also, let me know if you need me to post any code!
Ryan Duchene
Courses Plus Student 46,022 PointsTry visiting the root of your site (the homepage). Does that return a 404 as well?
Colton Plumley
4,468 PointsThe root of the site shows me the static homepage I set up. I can change the static page to any of the pages I have created and it displays the content, but when I go to localhost/~Username/Sites/wordpress/any_of_the_pages_I_have_set_up it returns the 404 code. Same thing when I click the view page link under each page.
Ryan Duchene
Courses Plus Student 46,022 PointsCan I get a screenshot of the site root, and also of one of the pages that isn't working? If you can't for whatever reason, no big deal.
Kyle Binger
3,357 PointsHi Ryan,
I tried using the file you linked to. It was pointed out to me by my web hosting provider (upon contacting them for support) that the htaccess file was suppose to be named .htaccess, with a period in front of it. Without this period my wordpress site was not reading the file, and hence the fix was not working. upon adding the period in front of it, everything works fine. Not sure if Colton was ever able to get past this, likely he was, but if not or if there are others in the same pinch, downloading this file and then renaming it so it starts with a period may work.
Hot Bricks Employee
10,991 Points@Kyle Binger -- did you copy the new text from the bottom of the permalink page and paste that in your .htaccess file?
I was having the same problem and after searching realized this is what I had to do for my permalink pages to display.
Ekramy M.Ali
17,748 PointsI'm using wamp so I enabled rewrite_module in the Apache setting and the problem solved .
Bryan Lam
15,592 PointsBryan Lam
15,592 PointsIf you are using WAMP or XAMPP, be sure to enable the 'rewrite_module' in the Apache settings. Even if you have the .htaccess file set up, it won't work until you enabled Apache to do the rewrite of the urls.
Maxim Cojocaru
1,423 PointsMaxim Cojocaru
1,423 PointsBryan Lam , thanks .