Title: Posts return 404 error Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Posts return 404 error * [buckminster1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buckminster1/) * (@buckminster1) * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-return-404-error/) * Ok, I recently (3 days ago) reinstalled my blog (i.e. wiped Xubuntu and started again). I inserted the blog.sql back into MySQL using phpMyAdmin, folder back to the /var/www, etc… All was well until today, when I noticed that my individual post links return a 404 error. Give it a try for yourself – [http://buckyspalace.net/how_to](http://buckyspalace.net/how_to) Would reinstalling WP be an alternative solution to this? I see a bit of chatter around the recent upgrade to 2.7 (?), but I am operating 2.6.3. * Suggestions 🙂 * ~Mark Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * Thread Starter [buckminster1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buckminster1/) * (@buckminster1) * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-return-404-error/#post-908259) * **Solution found here:[http://wordpress.org/support/topic/168902?replies=8](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/168902?replies=8)** APPARENT FIX TO THIS PROBLEM: Ok, I hadn’t come up with anything through the search words option, but then tried under the “Installation” Forum (hadn’t thought of this before, because I’d thought the installation went alright). The Thread is called, and located at: * “Upgraded to 2.5, now pages don’t display… WTF?” [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/164360?replies=71](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/164360?replies=71) * I didn’t understand a lot of it, but for those of you who are having this problem, and who like me who have no formal training in, or deep knowledge of computers, here we go…: * THE COMPLETE NEWBIE’S FIX FOR POSTS THAT DON’T LOAD IN WORDPRESS 2.5: * 1) Log in; 2) On the “Dashboard”, wander over to your top right, where it says“ Settings, Plugins, Users”, and Click on “SETTINGS”; 3) Now wander over the next page to Click on “PERMALINKS” (this will be one of several options probably listed over the title “General Settings”); 4) You should now see the title “Customize Permalink Structure”; Under this, there will be little buttons beside a list of options; There are now two options to fix the post/page error: a) – Click the “DEFAULT” button; – Click on the “SAVE CHANGES” link near the bottom of the page; (this will mean that the URL’s/Web addresses of your posts will end in something like “?p=123”); OR b) – Click on the button of your preferred option( you should see some code pop into the box beside “Custom”; – THEN Click the button beside “CUSTOM”; – Now, in the box beside “Custom” and right BEFORE the string of code that’s in there, insert what’s BETWEEN these quotation marks: “index. php?”; – Click on the “SAVE CHANGES” link near the bottom of the page; (This will give you an URL/Web address for each of your posts almost the same as your preferred option, but just with “/index.php?/” preceding it). * This seems to work; although there is apparently some fix that you can do that removes the “index.php?”, I must confess I don’t really understand how it’s done; I will leave this thread open a bit longer in case any of you more advanced people wish to explain it (hint: imagine that you are playing with “mechano” sets, whereas I am still playing with “duplo” bricks (“Lego” bricks being too small and fiddly…)). * [moenkopi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moenkopi/) * (@moenkopi) * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-return-404-error/#post-908389) * Wow. It works. Thank you! I’ll look into removing the index bit later. For now I’m just glad to have this quick (and very easy, thanks to you!) fix. 🙂 * [moenkopi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moenkopi/) * (@moenkopi) * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-return-404-error/#post-908390) * Ha! Got the index thing solved. Ready for it? Do everything that buckminster said above. THEN go back and choose the option you prefer. For some reason it works for me. Weird, huh? * [steve316](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steve316/) * (@steve316) * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-return-404-error/#post-908450) * This is certainly a workaround, but is there a way to get this to work without the “index.php?” in the url structure? * (edit) Answer was found here: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Pretty_Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Pretty_Permalinks) * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Permalinks_without_mod_rewrite](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Permalinks_without_mod_rewrite) * [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/) * (@iridiax) * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-return-404-error/#post-908451) * Permalinks with index.php in them are PATHINFO permalinks, and they are what you can use if you don’t have mod_rewrite or mod_rewrite is not enabled. See: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks) Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘Posts return 404 error’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [404-error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/404-error/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 5 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/) * Last activity: [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-return-404-error/#post-908451) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics