permalink nightmare

  • I did up a site with a few pages, great. I then decided to add a blog page and then realised I had not set my permalinks. So everything broke when I tried to change it.
    I tried a few plug ins to help change them over, and none worked.
    I tried deleting all of the pages from the site, reestablishing the correct permalink structure, and then added the pages back in. All broken. They won’t work unless they are ‘default’. This is obviously not good. Also in doing that somehow my option to select a template for a page has been lost (though the template file is there still).

    Help!

    1. How do I fix my permalink nightmre?
    2. How do I get my option to choose a template back?

    Thank you!!

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  • 1. Check with your hosts that mod_rewrite is running on your server.

    2. Try deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

    Thread Starter agileflower

    (@agileflower)

    Agh ok.

    I am the host. I used Xampp to set it up. Not sure how to check mod-rewrite?

    To activate the rewrite module, you need to edit your Apache configuration file — called httpd.conf – in NotePad or another plain text editor.

    Find the line that reads:

    # LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

    And remove the hash sign (#) from the start of the line, so that it reads:

    LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

    You then need to make a permissions change in the same file. Find the line that reads:

    <Directory "${path}/www">

    A few lines further down should be:

    AllowOverride None

    Change this to:

    AllowOverride All

    Save your httpd.conf file, then restart the Apache server.

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