Title: 404 Errors when permalinks are enabled Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # 404 Errors when permalinks are enabled * [voidtrance](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voidtrance/) * (@voidtrance) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-errors-when-permalinks-are-enabled/) * I am having a pretty nasty issue on my site ([http://www.voidtrance.net](http://www.voidtrance.net)): * When permalinks are enabled (any structure), I get 404 Error when attempting to view many of the category or tag pages. What I mean by “category” and “tag” pages is the pages containing the archives for a particular category or tag. * This doesn’t happen on all category archive pages but most. * Originally, I thought the problem was due to the matching slugs of the problem categories/tags, meaning that I had categories and tags with the same slugs. However, this doesn’t seem to be the case as everything works when I disable permalinks. Furthermore, I applied the patch attached to [bug 5809](http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5809), which allowed me to change the matching slugs and that still did not fix the problem. * I am suspecting that this has something to do with permalinks processing but I have no idea where to look. * Please, help me with any information, fixes, and/or ideas and a large portion of my site is unusable due to this error. * Thanks Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * [paesano2000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paesano2000/) * (@paesano2000) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-errors-when-permalinks-are-enabled/#post-2198057) * Hello Voidtrance, I had a similar problem, but I was hosting my WordPress installation locally using WAMP. * However you might be having a similar problem: if your hosting or server does not support or have turned on the mod_rewrite module then the permalinks will not work. * Assuming you are running on a IIS server due to the .net domain name, there is a good possibility also that your server does not support Apache server modules like mod_rewrite. * Talk to your provider about enabling Apache commands for your website, or go to a different web host that runs Apache based servers. * [This Web Page](http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/466/enabling-pretty-permalinks-in-wordpress/) may help you with its tutorial on how to enable this on your IIS server editing the web.config, but be careful! Backup the original web.config before messing around with it (I’ve messed it up in the past). * Hope that helps and good luck 🙂 * Thread Starter [voidtrance](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voidtrance/) * (@voidtrance) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-errors-when-permalinks-are-enabled/#post-2198064) * paesano2000, * Thank you for the response. * I am hosting my own site and mod_rewrite is enabled and working. As I mentioned in my original post, some of the category archive pages work when permalinks are enabled, just not all. Also, post links also work with permalinks enabled. * I am pretty sure that mod_rewrite and Apache are working properly. * Thread Starter [voidtrance](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voidtrance/) * (@voidtrance) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-errors-when-permalinks-are-enabled/#post-2198216) * Does anyone have any other ideas or suggestions? * Thanks * Thread Starter [voidtrance](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voidtrance/) * (@voidtrance) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-errors-when-permalinks-are-enabled/#post-2198274) * I would appreciate any help here? * [joseffb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joseffb/) * (@joseffb) * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-errors-when-permalinks-are-enabled/#post-2198366) * same problem here. * [sinrise](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sinrise/) * (@sinrise) * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-errors-when-permalinks-are-enabled/#post-2198370) * Also having the same problem. I have checked my .htaccess and WP is generating it when I change my permalink setting to default then back to ‘pretty’ but I’m still getting WP’s 404 page (not my theme’s) * I had WP running locally via WAMP and this problem was solved when I modified my httpd.config file. * I installed WP on my hosting account via godaddy. I have come across several people with this problem but with no clear answer. Can anyone help? Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) The topic ‘404 Errors when permalinks are enabled’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [permalinks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalinks/) * [slugs](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/slugs/) * [tags](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/tags/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 6 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [sinrise](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sinrise/) * Last activity: [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-errors-when-permalinks-are-enabled/#post-2198370) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics