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Giles Hales-Tooke
Giles Hales-Tooke
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Posted by Giles Hales-Tooke
Giles Hales-Tooke
1,888 Points

Permalinks fail when set to "post name"

Hi

I'm in a situation where my upload works fine, until I try to set the permalinks to post name, at which point my navigation fails with a 404

any ideas?

2 Answers

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

Hi Giles,

I've just checked my local WP installation as I couldn't remember if I had the same issue originally but switching to post name had no effect.

Hopefully one of the following will help point you in the right direction though :)

-Rich

Giles Hales-Tooke
Giles Hales-Tooke
1,888 Points
Giles Hales-Tooke
Giles Hales-Tooke
1,888 Points

Hey Rich ... thanks ... I've fixed it in steps as follows (for anybody who might be in the same situation - e.g. setting up virtual hosting to serve multiple WP sites)

  1. The first link (404-errors-with-permalinks-set-to-postname) points to a discussion on using a feature call "mod_rewrite" (basically, this enables "post name" type permalinks to work)

  2. "mod_rewrite" is a bunch of commands saved in a special file called .htaccess - this file sits in the root of each domain that you want to host. It has the dot in front of it to tell your server to hide it (e.g. you will not see it in things like filezilla, but you can open it in a commandline browser with an editor such as nano)

  3. here's the bit that if forgot YOU NEED TO ENABLE MOD_REWRITE by calling sudo a2enmod rewrite

Hope this helps Thanks for the pointer Rich!

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

No problem :)