Title: Permalink Problems Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Permalink Problems * [zaclohrenz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zaclohrenz/) * (@zaclohrenz) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-4/) * My blog is at [http://www.zaclohrenz.com/blog/](http://www.zaclohrenz.com/blog/). Basically my problem is, if you try to click on the title to read more (or link to the specific post), it gives you a 404. I tried changing my permalinks (thinking that was it) but kept getting .htaccess thing where it asks me to add stuff. If I add it to my root folder, the page never loads. If I add it to the blog folder, I keep getting 404’s. * I am assuming it goes into blog, correct? I even left .htaccess blank, then chmod it to 777, and it still happens. The only way I can get the front page to stay up and running is to not even have a .htaccess file in blog. So how will I fix this problem? Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 19 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-4/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-4/page/2/?output_format=md) * [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/) * (@whooami) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-4/#post-488851) * _I am assuming it goes into blog, correct? I even left .htaccess blank, then chmod it to 777, and it still happens. _ * Whatever the ultimate solution ends up being, do **NOT** leave your .htaccess with those permissions in the long term. The most ‘open’ permission your .htaccess should ever have is 644. * And, just for educational purposes, chmod’ing a plain text file (which your . htaccess is) to 777 does nothing more than chmod 666. 777 is used for **directory** permissions OR for executable scripts (perl scripts, for example) * Thread Starter [zaclohrenz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zaclohrenz/) * (@zaclohrenz) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-4/#post-488887) * I realize that… I was just saying I went to the extreeme measures to make sure that it was writable, yet it still did not work. * [blork](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blork/) * (@blork) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-4/#post-488941) * I’ve just come off a very similar problem (see this thread: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/96746](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/96746)) * Turns out it was because my host upgraded to PHP 5.2. Apparently there are problems with WordPress and that version of PHP. * Contact your host and see if you’ve recently been upgraded. If so, see if they’ll downgrade you to PHP 5.1 or lower. * There may be another solution, but I’m not aware of it. (I just lost a day and a half on this, and as soon as my host put me back on PHP 4 the problem went away.) * Thread Starter [zaclohrenz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zaclohrenz/) * (@zaclohrenz) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-4/#post-488993) * I am running PHP Version 4.3.11 already… * Thread Starter [zaclohrenz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zaclohrenz/) * (@zaclohrenz) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-4/#post-489251) * Bump… Still no idea why this is happening. * [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/) * (@handysolo) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-4/#post-489252) * _I am assuming it goes into blog, correct? _ * Yes. * There’s some good troubleshooting stuff at the [Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Permalinks) page, but first you might want to confirm with your host (who is your host, by the way?) that they have mod_rewrite and AllowOverride properly on and enabled. * Thread Starter [zaclohrenz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zaclohrenz/) * (@zaclohrenz) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-4/#post-489293) * My host is nobody you will have heard of, just an individual who owns a few servers in OR on optical connections. * I can email and ask if they have mod_rewrite and AllowOverride on, but I have never had problems with this before… Before I did a re-vamp of the blog it worked fine. I wouldn’t suppose trying to change the permalink options and such within the Dashboard would cause this much trouble, I have tried all the permalink options and none of them work. * Thread Starter [zaclohrenz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zaclohrenz/) * (@zaclohrenz) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-4/#post-489324) * BUMP * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-4/#post-489325) * Do you have other rewrite rules in your htaccess besides the WP rules? If yes, what happens if you temporarily remove them? * Thread Starter [zaclohrenz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zaclohrenz/) * (@zaclohrenz) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-4/#post-489326) * I have one .htaccess kept in my root folder is the only other one I have tried doing anything with. All it is used for is error docs (which are getting hit frequently as a result of this permalink problem). * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-4/#post-489327) * WP needs its own .htaccess file in its folder – i.e. in “blog” in your case! * Thread Starter [zaclohrenz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zaclohrenz/) * (@zaclohrenz) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-4/#post-489330) * In reference to my original post: “I am assuming it goes into blog, correct? I even left .htaccess blank, then chmod it to 777, and it still happens. The only way I can get the front page to stay up and running is to not even have a .htaccess file in blog. So how will I fix this problem?” * So, yes. I realize it goes into blog. * [solidariti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solidariti/) * (@solidariti) * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-4/#post-489401) * I had the same problem, it took me one week of searching through these forums, if you are getting the 403 error or 404 error take a look at this page it helped me straight away. * [http://www.htaccesselite.com/htaccess/wordpress-permalink-403-error-vt171.html](http://www.htaccesselite.com/htaccess/wordpress-permalink-403-error-vt171.html) * My problem was 403 error so I did what it recommended which was to insert this in my .htaccess file Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch above and above this # BEGIN WordPress so it doesn’t get over written and my pretty permalinks /%category%/%postname%/%post_id% which resolve to [http://test.dappastyles.com/about/](http://test.dappastyles.com/about/) for my pages worked. * Hope this helps. * [lizv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lizv/) * (@lizv) * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-4/#post-489402) * Hi, * I have just uploaded the most recent version of WP: 2.3. I want to change the permalinks so that I have the title of my posts ‘allinurl’. * When I deselect the ‘default’ permalink and select: Date and Name based, and then remove the all the coding prior to: /%post%/, save the changes and then check out the blog, the blog appears frozen in time. I try selecting the title, or the ‘read more here’ link, or any of the sidebar links and it always appears to revert back to the home page. Nothing appears to change. * When I restore the default, everything is as it was. * Any ideas about what is happening? * Thx. Liz * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-4/#post-489403) * _When I deselect the ‘default’ permalink and select: Date and Name based, and** then remove** the all the coding prior to: /%post%/,_ * Don’t do that. If you select one of the given structures – do NOT touch it. If you want your own: select – custom. * And before doing anything, read: [Using_Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks) ( hint: that one tag might be not enough for WP…) Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 19 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-4/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-4/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Permalink Problems’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [found](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/found/) * [htaccess](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/htaccess/) * [not](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/not/) * [permalink](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalink/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 19 replies * 9 participants * Last reply from: [syncbox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/syncbox/) * Last activity: [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-4/page/2/#post-489411) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics