Title: permalinks plunge – access errors
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# permalinks plunge – access errors

 *  [sjlim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sjlim/)
 * (@sjlim)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-plunge-access-errors/)
 * Hi all, I recently upgraded to wp 2.x. Now I see the need to start using permalinks
   for my pages.
 * My first attempt at enabling them results in 403s for all pages including the
   dashboard. The only solution is to delete the .htaccess file from my /blog folder.
 * What could be wrong? I just want to try some of the default permalinks first.
 * Thanks,
    Steve.

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-plunge-access-errors/#post-481747)
 * Well, the “deafult” works without any htaccess file.
 * The .htaccess file should be in the WP directory.
    It has to be writable (chmod
   666) so WP can write the rules into it. More: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)

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