Title: Permalinks. 404 errors Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Permalinks. 404 errors * [robsbots](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robsbots/) * (@robsbots) * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-404-errors/) * Hi everyone. * I’m having a bit of a problem setting up pretty permalinks on my LAMP server. Its Ubuntu 12.04 with apache2 btw. I think apache is set up correctly for mod_rewrite but not sure. Latest WP version. * I have WordPress permalinks set to Custom structure : /%category%/%postname% * When I hover over a link to a post I get a sensible looking link. ie :- [http://www.robsbots.co.uk/uncategorised/tester](http://www.robsbots.co.uk/uncategorised/tester) but this throws up a 404 when clicked. The post was generated before I changed the permalinks setting in wordpress and set up apache to use mod_rewrite. Not sure if this matters though. * Really I need some advice on how to start tracking down the problem. * I have access to all files for wordpress and apache configuration/virtual host configs etc. I think the host files are correct but not sure. I generated my own .htaccess file from the one on the wordpress codex. * Any advice would be most welcome. * Thanks * Rob Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/) * (@swansonphotos) * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-404-errors/#post-4472349) * Might want to have each post be in a category when using that permalink setting. Just use /%postname%/ and a good theme/plugins. * [http://www.robsbots.co.uk/](http://www.robsbots.co.uk/)**uncategorised**/tester * Thread Starter [robsbots](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robsbots/) * (@robsbots) * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-404-errors/#post-4472350) * Hi * Thanks for the reply. I have placed that post in a catagory but still seem to get the 404 error. I assume the mod_rewrite is working on the apache side of things though…. I have also changed the permalink setting to /%postname%/ as suggested with the same 404 error. * Not sure how the theme or plugins affect things. Could you elaborate ? * Thanks * Rob * [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/) * (@swansonphotos) * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-404-errors/#post-4472351) * The sailboat is blue with grey sails. Are you a bot? If not divide 21 by 3. Answer without numbers. * Thread Starter [robsbots](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robsbots/) * (@robsbots) * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-404-errors/#post-4472353) * Sounds like a nice boat. Thats seven btw. me < confused…….. * [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/) * (@swansonphotos) * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-404-errors/#post-4472354) * A bot is an automated computer/server. Typically they dole out spam or malware. So Robs Bots is human? * What server cache/CDN is in use? * Thread Starter [robsbots](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robsbots/) * (@robsbots) * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-404-errors/#post-4472355) * Bots are getting pretty good if I can be mistaken for one. Or maybe I’m not a bright as I thought I was…. 🙂 * Definately human, or close anyway. * Not sure what you mean by server cache/CDN. Where can I find this info ? * Thanks * Rob * Thread Starter [robsbots](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robsbots/) * (@robsbots) * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-404-errors/#post-4472356) * Just had a quick google on cache and CDN. I just have a single virtual machine serving up pages from a couples of small sites, all run off of apache2 with some virtual servers set up in the host files. Not sure there is any caching. Its straight from the server I think. * Does this answer your question ? * Thanks * Rob * Thread Starter [robsbots](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robsbots/) * (@robsbots) * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-404-errors/#post-4472375) * Just thought I should mention. The only thing in my .htaccess file is the code from the wp codex. * ``` # BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] # END WordPress ``` * I created this file. Should there be anything else in there ? * [Mohammad Eid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/m_eid14/) * (@m_eid14) * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-404-errors/#post-4472626) * I’ve this issue for along, and tried hard to fix it with googling, finally I found that I have to enable “rewrite_module” on apache where I installed it at WAMP server, and now everything work well !! * Try to enable the “rewrite_module” and let us know what happen after that 😉 Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) The topic ‘Permalinks. 404 errors’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [apache](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/apache/) * [apache2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/apache2/) * [permalinks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalinks/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 9 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [Mohammad Eid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/m_eid14/) * Last activity: [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-404-errors/#post-4472626) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics