Title: Permalink crash
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Permalink crash

 *  [infocynic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/infocynic/)
 * (@infocynic)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-crash/)
 * Server runs OK, wordpress is up, talking to MySQL… I just downgraded Apache to
   1.3x on Windows, in an attempt to solve the “CPU spikes to 100% on every page
   request” bug. Now my permalinks don’t work, and I can’t regenerate them, because
   trying to go to that page in the admin control panel crashes apache.exe. I tried
   clearing the option in the wp_options table, I have verified that mod_rewrite
   is enabled, and AllowOverride is on / and the htdocs directory that wordpress
   is a subfolder of.
 * Apache 1.3.34
    PHP 5 Wordpress 2.02 MySQL 5 Windows XP

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 *  [ztutz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ztutz/)
 * (@ztutz)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-crash/#post-364633)
 * I’ve got the same problem – anyone recognize the symptoms?
 * Apache 1.3.33
    PHP 5.0.4 Wordpress 2.02 MySQL 4.1 Windows XP
 *  [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/)
 * (@davidchait)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-crash/#post-364634)
 * it’s a known apache 1.3.x bug on windows. hack your wp-admin/admin-functions.
   php file, function got_mod_rewrite should just return true if you are CERTAIN
   you have mod_rewrite on an apache server.
 * -d
 *  [ztutz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ztutz/)
 * (@ztutz)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-crash/#post-364635)
 * Thanks! That forced apache into line…

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 * [Crash](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/crash/)

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 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [ztutz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ztutz/)
 * Last activity: [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-crash/#post-364635)
 * Status: not resolved

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