Permalink Change leads to 404 Error

Does your webserver configuration have “mod_rewrite” enabled ? Without it the .htaccess script does not work.
Easiest way to test is to run the phpinfo function, create a .php file with an obscure name such as phpinfoX23.php with these contents:

<?php
 phpinfo();
?>

The obscure name is required as the info is conceivably of interest to bad people.

Ok, it shows its loaded. But I don’t see any indications that it is “enabled” unless just being loaded implies enabled.

I also noticed that when I re-selected the defalt, the conf file was blank.

Thanks.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by ov10fac.

Yes loaded implies enabled.

I also noticed that when I re-selected the defalt, the conf file was blank.

I don’t understand where you did this selection. More details please.

The fact that mod_rewrite is loaded doesn’t mean it’s enabled in your web directory. I’d bet that your httpd.conf file has “AllowOverride None” in the system root directory without a corresponding “AllowOverride All” in your web directory. Your .htaccess files will be ignored if you have such a configuration.

This can be solved in two ways. The first is to change the directive in the system root directory to “AllowOverride All”. It is the easiest solution, but it is a minor security risk as well as potentially slowing down your localhost installation. A better solution is to place an “AllowOverride All” directive in the web directory definition.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by Dion.

Ross. When I changed the permalink back to default and reviewed the .htaccess file it only contained the commented lines. The other lines were all deleted.

DionDesigns – I am familiar with the httd.conf file but not with the a file in the web directory. Can you explain what you mean by that or point me to a reference source to help out?

Thanks.

What I mean is that, if your httpd.comf file has a block similar to this:

<Directory "/">
	AllowOverride None
	Require all denied
</Directory>

You should add another block that looks like this:

<Directory "/path/to/web/directory">
	AllowOverride All
	Require all granted
</Directory>

• This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by Dion.

Ok, Updated the http.conf file as you suggested. Also added missing .htaccess file to the root directory (/var/www/html), but I am still getting the 404 error.
Here is the .htaccess file contents:

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

Many thanks for your help.

Did you restart Apache after making the change to httpd.conf? That’s required to activate the changes.

Also, if you already had a `<Directory “/var/www/html”>’ block defined, add the AllowOverride directive to that block instead of creating a second one.

Yes, I did restart Apache. Here is what I have in my httpd.conf file. These lines are at the very end of the file.

<Directory />
AllowOverride none
Require all denied
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/html>
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>

Still not working. However, I was able to solve the max file upload size. Now if I can get this fixed, and find a way to get mail working, I should be set.

the changes to the httpd.conf file seem to have solved the problem.
Thanks everyone.

As I said the http.conf file changes recommended fixed the issue. But there were several places that I changed and things seemed to work after that.