Title: Errors when changing Permalink style
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Errors when changing Permalink style

 *  Resolved [patrickdickey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/patrickdickey/)
 * (@patrickdickey)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/errors-when-changing-permalink-style/)
 * I installed wordpress on a virtual machine in my local network, for configuring
   a website before uploading it to my host. One issue that I’m running into is 
   with the Permalink settings.
 * If I have them set to the default of servername/?page=1 (or whatever number is
   assigned), everything works fine. However, if I change it to anything else, then
   my pages stop loading (can’t find page errors). It converts my pages from the?
   page=xx to “about-us” or “whateverpagename”, but going to servername/about-us/
   produces an error (404).
 * To clarify: If my “About” page is page 3, then setting the permalink to the default
   setting and going to servername/?page=3 works. However if I set permalinks to
   anything else (which changes the page url from ?page=3 to about-us/) causes everything
   to break. Going to servername/about-us/ fails to load.
 * I’ve tried this with multiple reinstallations of wordpress, and still have this
   issue. Any advice on what to do to fix this (or requests for more information
   to troubleshoot the issue) are greatly appreciated.
 * Thanks, and have a great day:)
    Patrick.
 * P.S. Also to clarify my intentions, I’m going to create the site on my local 
   machine, and then recreate it on my hosted provider after I have everything configured
   there.

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 *  Thread Starter [patrickdickey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/patrickdickey/)
 * (@patrickdickey)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/errors-when-changing-permalink-style/#post-2740982)
 * An update to this. I reposted this in another forum (based on a reply in this
   forum to a similar issue as mine) and included my configuration files. In doing
   so, I realized that my /etc/apache2/sites-available/wordpress file had AllowOverride
   Deny instead of AllowOverride all in it. So I changed that, and am able to navigate
   to at least one of my pages. (I had changed it in the sites-available/default
   file, but not this one.)
 * Have a great day:)
    Patrick.

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