404 errors after changing permalinks

  • Hi, I have a standard installation of the latest wordpress on my experimental site, and wanted to try “pretty” permalinks. Unfortunately, my links are broken now. I searched the forum and google, and followed the instructions here:
    https://www.squidoo.com/wordpress-not-found-error-fix

    but it doesn’t work. I’ve put an httpd.conf in my public_html folder on my server with
    <Directory /public_html>
    Options Indexes MultiViews SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
    AllowOverride Options FileInfo
    </Directory>
    as I read something about maybe that would work, but no luck. Maybe I have the path wrong.
    I know this has been covered ad nauseam on this forum, but everything I’ve read is either too confusing or hasn’t worked. Can someone help? Thanks!

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  • What parameters did you enter for the permalinks?

    I’d try and undo the htaccess and anything else and start from there

    If you have other mod_rewrite rules to include put them BEFORE WordPress’s rules

    I think the standard htaccess is:

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

# END WordPress

    Thread Starter Ben Dunkle

    (@empireoflight)

    Richard,
    That did it. Thanks. Where did you get that code? I wonder why isn’t there more documentation on it. I’ve tried literally dozens of “solutions” found here and on google, but nothing has worked until now.

    I just looked at the .htaccess that was produced by my site ??

    Glad it worked

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