Title: Permalink Problems
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# 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?

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 *  [cheanu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cheanu/)
 * (@cheanu)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-4/page/2/#post-489404)
 * Hi,
 * I’ve been working on my blog for 2 weeks and I can’t find any solutions.
 * I’ve uploaded my .htaccess file to my blog directory and I can edit and save 
   changes to it from the WP control panel, so i guess it’s been set to enable WP
   to re-write to this file.
 * After I’ve changed my permalink option to Date and Name based, it shows a message
   that my permalink structure has been updated. I checked my .htaccess file and
   it shows the codes as per followed:
 *     ```
       # BEGIN WordPress
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
       RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
       </IfModule>
   
       # END WordPress
       ```
   
 * But I still can’t access my blog posts from my browser, not even the homepage
   [http://4life.cheanu.com](http://4life.cheanu.com) (I can browse [http://4life.cheanu.com/index.php](http://4life.cheanu.com/index.php)
   instead, if I type in the full URL in my browser). I can’t browse to my other
   posts too.
 * Please help.
 * PS: I’m using WP 2.3
 * Thanks!
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-4/page/2/#post-489405)
 * Look at the error message and read **everything** there.
    You are on a Windows(
   IIS) server – that doesn’t know what .htaccess is. So, the usual methods will
   never work on that server.
 * Read more: [Using_Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)
 *  [cheanu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cheanu/)
 * (@cheanu)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-4/page/2/#post-489406)
 * Thanks everyone for the reply.
    I’ve got my index.php figured out and I can now
   browse directly at [http://4life.cheanu.com](http://4life.cheanu.com)
 * However, I can’t jump to my posts if I’m using permalink formats other than the
   default (ugly permalink).
 * I’ve changed the permalinks format after I’ve figured out the index.php problem,
   yet my permalinks are not working. Please help.
 *  [syncbox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/syncbox/)
 * (@syncbox)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-4/page/2/#post-489411)
 * as far as I can tell, you are still using pretty permalinks… for example, if 
   you hover over the link under Categories, it shows:
 * [http://4life.cheanu.com/category/uncategorized/](http://4life.cheanu.com/category/uncategorized/)
 * if you were using the default permalinks, this would look something like [http://4life.cheanu.com/?p=N](http://4life.cheanu.com/?p=N)(
   where N is the ID number)
 * And if you are on an IIS server, you don’t have mod_rewrite
 * Suggestions:
    1) use the default method for permalinking 2) move to Linux
 * HTH, I’m sussing out a permalink issue in IE browsers and happen to stumble upon
   this post in my searches…

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-4/page/2/#post-489411)
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