Pretty permalinks 404 error in Wordpress
For 2 days now I have been trying to get “pretty” permalinks working in Wordpress and all it has resulted in is the dreaded 404 Page Not Found. The reason im writing about this is in hope that it helps others who are pulling their hair out when trying to get this to work. The whole idea of this was to change the default “ugly” links (http://example.com/?p=N) to something alot nicer and more search engine friendly (eg. http://example.com/category/post-name/). This was supposed to be a painless process but for some reason it just would not work!
Well.. after a couple of days scouring countless blogs, checking file permissions, modules, .conf files, I finally got it running. First of all I had to check that apache was loading the mod_rewrite module. To do this you need to edit /conf/httpd.conf in your apache dir and remove the # in front of LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so. Secondly you need to ensure that .htaccess (in your wordpress dir) has the correct permissions so that WP can write to it (chmod 666 – remember to change this back to 644 when done).
RSS feed
