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The Permalinks are CHANGING but the pages are staying in the same place.

So for Example, the new address for my contact page is:
https://www.forgemastersfilms.com/contact/

but the contact page stays here:
https://www.forgemastersfilms.com/?page_id=7

– with the old permalink address.

Why? How?

I’ll give you some more information on what I’ve done. See if you can help me out. This is my amateur trial and error approach and may well be the reason nothing is working…

I downloaded the (working) .htaccess file from my other website. I opened it in Dreamweaver and deleted the code. I replaced the code with this:

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

I then uploaded it to my new website (the one which does not work) and I made sure the permissions were set to 666.

I then went into wordpress and updated the permalink structure (succsfully)

– So why when I click around my site do I get 404 errors? Not on the fist page, but any page off that.

Please help!

Haha! Nobody likes ugly permalinks!

Thanks a lot for getting back to me. My knowledge is limited, but I’ll try and answer your questions.

1) Fairly certain I’m using an Apache server, yes. I know I’ve got mysql and PHP.

2) I think mode re_write etc are fine on my server. The thing is, I have another website with the same company which also has a wordpress blog on it, one that I changed the .htaccess file on and it works fine. No trouble at all. I can’t think what I’ve done differently.

3) Wordpress does say that it has successfully written onto the .htaccess file. I tried changing the permission of the file so that you couldn’t write on it. When I tried to update the permalink structure wordpress said the file was not writable (as you’d expect) so presumably it is writing to the htaccess file when it’s set to 666.

I have one post. I called it “Hi” – you click on it and you get a Not Found error again. So same problem with posts too.
Thanks in advance!