The requested URL was not found – permalink error

Please clarify what you mean by:

links in the site

Do you mean links in pages? Bookmarked links? Menu links?

The links in pages eg – leave a comment, category links and archive links all work if the permalink is set to default, any other setting gives URL not found error.

I am using the Twenty Thirteen theme.

Well the permalinks need to be regenerated if the slugs are changed.

See

https://wpquestions.com/question/show/id/7321

I don’t understand. I have set the permalinks using:

settings>permalinks>permalink setting>month and name

then creating the post. There shouldn’t be anything to regenerate. Am I missing something?

Well what I think may be happening is this:

You create a post using name for permalink.

eg so the URI is yoursite/mypost1

Now you change to month and name

so the URI becomes something like yoursite/2012/10/04/mypost1

I may be wrong as to how the URI is formed, but the point is the URIs to pages and posts change.

BUT some links on your site still point to the old yoursite/mypost1 but should point to yoursite/2012/10/04/mypost1 and so when you click on that link you get URL ### was not found on this Server..

So a regeneration updates all URIs so they are correct.

I deleted all post, with permalinks settings> month and name I created a new post, clicked on update.

Clicking the view post button gave me a
Not Found The requested URL /purpleAvo/2013/10/adsfasdf/ was not found on this server. error.

Ok but did you thoroughly read, understand and try the things in the article that I mention above?

I tried setting the permalinks to default and changing it back.
I rechecked the .htaccess and the content is

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

# END WordPress

I have stopped and started the server and cleared the cache.

I believe SEO is a plugin. I do not have it installed.

I used phpmyadmin to check the options table in the database and the permalink setting is being recorded correctly there.

It still does not work.

It still does not work

Ok so the other thing is that you may have a cache plugin that is serving up old pages with old links?

Do you have a cache?

Has it been cleared?

I would also deactivate all plugins and use a core theme like twentytwelve and see if that makes a difference…..

I am using the twenty thirteen plugin and the only plugin is askmet.

Being a fresh install, it should not be this hard to get pretty permalinks to work.

Sorry, I am not sure what else to try

Problem was solved the solution being painfully simple.
Using WAMP I clicked on its icon in the task bar then selected

apache>apache module before clicking on rewrite_module in the drop down list.

THANKS A LOT MAN ?? ??