Title: Dreaded Permalinks Issue
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Dreaded Permalinks Issue

 *  [wreed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wreed/)
 * (@wreed)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dreaded-permalinks-issue/)
 * So I set up a site for a client, to this say xyz.com. He is getting sued over
   the company name so to avoid legal trouble he changes the name to abc.com. Now
   mind you I set up his hosting and wp with simple scripts install to xyz.com domain.
   I then changed the domain to the primary (abc.com) and set up wp to work with
   abc.com. THis is all with permalinks on, working perfectly. I start configuring
   stuff this is still working for 1 week. tonight I am messing around in wp ecommerce
   plugin and delete a slug name for a product category and rename it. Save and 
   I believe I changed something else, it freaking destroyed the permalinks, they
   no longer work. I have tried redoing my .htaccess file to no avail. I tried numerous
   other things not working. I set up no permalinks and it works fine.
 * I engage my host. who seems pretty crappy but anyway, they set it back to the
   primary domain and wham it starts working with permalinks. I set it back to abc.
   com domain, stops working…anyone know if this is a coincidence but my host says
 * > We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused you. I have checked the 
   > issue and found that you have installed WordPress application at xyz.com via
   > SimpleScripts. If you wish the links of the website abc.com to redirect to 
   > the domain abc.com, please install the WordPress application for the domain
   > abc.com via SimpleScripts and point the domain abc.com to different folder 
   > and take the backup of the Database: xxxx to the other database which is created
   > via Simple Scripts from your end.
 * That seems quite verbose and stupid, I shouldn’t have to reinstall wp. HELP!

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 * Last reply from: [wreed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wreed/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dreaded-permalinks-issue/)
 * Status: not resolved

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