Title: Permalinks problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Permalinks problem

 *  [waldopepper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/waldopepper/)
 * (@waldopepper)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-problem-17/)
 * Hi, I have installed WordPress on a server and am having a few issues getting
   everything working which might all be related.
 * I’m looking to change my permalinks so that pages display as [http://www.site.com/mypage](http://www.site.com/mypage)
   etc rather than [http://www.site.com/?page_id=3](http://www.site.com/?page_id=3)
   but anything other then the default option on the Permalink settings page returns
   this error message when I click on any of the pages:
 * Not Found
    The requested document was not found on this server.
 * I’ve read elsewhere that there sometimes is an issue with the .htaccess – this
   wasn’t found in my WordPress directory on the server so I’ve created this now&
   uploaded it.
 * One thing though, when I try to chmod the settings of this file to 666, the FTP
   program returns the message
    ‘500 SITE CHMOD 666 .htaccess’ command not understood.
 * Is this what is causing me problems or a red-herring?

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 *  [Kailash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kailash1/)
 * (@kailash1)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-problem-17/#post-1186983)
 * Just write the required code in your .htaccess file locally and then upload it
   via FTP to your wordpress directory. Also, make sure that mod_rewrite is enabled
   on your hosting server.
 *  Thread Starter [waldopepper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/waldopepper/)
 * (@waldopepper)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-problem-17/#post-1187049)
 * Thanks – not sure what you mean by ‘required code’ – is there a way of writing
   what the pages should be called, rather than doing this through the dashboard?

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## Tags

 * [htaccess](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/htaccess/)
 * [page](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/page/)
 * [permalinks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalinks/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [waldopepper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/waldopepper/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-problem-17/#post-1187049)
 * Status: not resolved

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