blog-transfer to localhost/xampp

I figured out that if I change the permalink structure back to “default” everything is fine.

Back to “/%postname%/”, and I get the 404 again.

Any suggestions?

it looks like you might have a problem with mod_rewrite
basically, if mod_rewrite isn’t active (and I think it isn’t by default in xampp) the server doesn’t know what to do with urls like /your-post-slug/, hence those posts won’t work
I made a quick search for it and found this
https://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/03/08/wordpress-permalinks-does-not-work-in-xampp-setup/

You’re right – mod_rewrite is turned off by default in XAMPP. You need to uncomment that line in your apache httpd.conf file, and then restart apache.

Thank you, f888, worked like a charm ?? .