sonofadoc

Here’s the changed code in the httpd.conf file:

ServerRoot "C:/Apache"

DocumentRoot "C:/webpages"

<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
</Directory>

    # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
    # It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
    #   Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
    #
    AllowOverride All

    #
    # Controls who can get stuff from this server.
    #
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all

</Directory>

Here are the default setting I found and the 2 instances of “AllowOveride” in the httpd.conf file for AllowOverride. Wherever it says ,AllowOverride None’ I replaced none with ‘All’. I still get the 404 error.

# AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
    # It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
    #   Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
    #
    AllowOverride None

<Directory "C:/Apache/cgi-bin">
    AllowOverride None
    Options None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

#
    # Controls who can get stuff from this server.
    #
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all

I’ve go to run Phil. I’ll have to get back to this. Thanks for your help. I’ll be back.

sonofadoc

I have done this Phil. That falls under the category of:

* I have configured Apache (httpd.conf to allow “mod_rewrite”)*

which means I have removed the hash tag.

It looks to me like I have full permissions in Windows 7 which I gather is equivalent to 777 in Unix. I’m not clear on this and I don’t know how to set the permissions on local Apache. I know how to do it in the Apache server on my web host via my FTP client. So the answer is – I’m not sure except Windows 7 says I have full control of the file. Here is the .htaccess file:

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

# END WordPress

* I have configured Apache (httpd.conf to allow “mod_rewrite”)*

I have found the changes I made that caused this problem. I had changed the permalinks to a custom setting. When I changed it back to the default setting the issue was resolved. Now I have to figure out how to change the permalinks to a custom setting without causing this problem.