Title: REST API Problem Last modified: November 1, 2019 --- # REST API Problem * Resolved [Julinho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/razione/) * (@razione) * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rest-api-problem-4/) * The Yoast Plugin has a problem with my site. * I opened a support on the Yoast forum and they told me it’s a REST issue. * They gave me this answer: * > The configuration wizard relies on a built-in WordPress tool called the REST > API. Per the screenshot, this tool is returning to 404 Not Found which means > that either the core files are missing or your site / server has disabled the > REST API. > The REST API in it’s most basic state should return information about your > site like it does for this site: [https://wordpress.org/wp-json/](https://wordpress.org/wp-json/) > Your site returns The requested URL was not found on this server. * Log: I did it and the plugin keeps showing error.See the error log: [https://www.dropbox.com/s/p0kuv48atf1zpsu/log.png?dl=0](https://www.dropbox.com/s/p0kuv48atf1zpsu/log.png?dl=0) * Can you help me? * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Frest-api-problem-4%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * [autotutorial](https://wordpress.org/support/users/autotutorial/) * (@autotutorial) * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rest-api-problem-4/#post-12088369) * This is a problem of cache (your server, load balancing, reverse proxy and/or your plugin have copy of page with pretty Permalink, but your htaccess is missing now). If you are using non-pretty permalinks, you should pass the REST API route as a query string parameter. The route [http://oursite.com/wp-json/](http://oursite.com/wp-json/) in the example above would hence be [http://oursite.com/?rest_route=/](http://oursite.com/?rest_route=/) Set your **missing** .htaccess and it work 😉 [Pretty Permalink](https://wordpress.org/support/article/using-permalinks/#using-pretty-permalinks) * > The configuration wizard relies on a built-in WordPress tool called the REST > API. Per the screenshot, this tool is returning to 404 Not Found which means > that either the core files are missing or your site / server has disabled the > REST API. * There are several reasons when a status code other than http 200 comes out, the 404 code often indicates incorrect request in this case forward this technical advice, yoast if it meets a 404 with all methods and indicates if it is a problem of [http://oursite.com/index.php/wp-json/](http://oursite.com/index.php/wp-json/) PATHINFO (Almost Pretty), [http://oursite.com/index.php/wp-json/](http://oursite.com/index.php/wp-json/). htaccess (Pretty Permalink) or [http://oursite.com/?rest_ruote=/](http://oursite.com/?rest_ruote=/) query string (Ugly). - This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by [autotutorial](https://wordpress.org/support/users/autotutorial/). Reason: Edit for missing content * Thread Starter [Julinho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/razione/) * (@razione) * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rest-api-problem-4/#post-12088438) * Great [@autotutorial](https://wordpress.org/support/users/autotutorial/) ! * Works! * Tks! * [autotutorial](https://wordpress.org/support/users/autotutorial/) * (@autotutorial) * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rest-api-problem-4/#post-12088465) * Read please, send this fix on page plugin Yoast. * [vemman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vemman/) * (@vemman) * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rest-api-problem-4/#post-12486540) * Had similar issue noticed when gutenberg threw error. * Solution: rewrite was off in my docker container (php:7.3-apache-buster) `a2enmod rewrite` & `service reload apache2` resolved it for me. Should work on normal systems too * [mauwiks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/its7376/) * (@its7376) * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rest-api-problem-4/#post-12494204) * Works for me just by hitting my permalinks section “saved”. Thanks! Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘REST API Problem’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [api](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/api/) * [rest](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rest/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 5 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [mauwiks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/its7376/) * Last activity: [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rest-api-problem-4/#post-12494204) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics