Changing permalinks causes 500 Server Error

  • I’ve found tons of other threads supposedly addressing this issue, but they all apply to really old versions of WP and/or seem to be completely random and unhelpful.

    Using WP 3.9, but also had this issue with 3.8.3. Was hoping it had been fixed, but no. Working on localhost XAMPP with mod_rewrite enabled, but also tested on a ‘live’ host with the same result. I have no .htaccess file on localhost (that I’m aware of) so deleting/repairing that doesn’t work. The only solution I’ve found is to do a fresh install and not change permalinks. Not really acceptable.

    Problem: After changing permalinks, I get a 500 Server Error. Why does this happen and how to fix?

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  • Thread Starter CiderJack

    (@ciderjack)

    If you could tell me which line needs to be commented out, I’d be happy to try what nabil suggested.

    The one that starts with:

    $is_apache = (....

    The start of both lines are the same, it’s just the end of it that’s different.

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