Title: strange permalink problem
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# strange permalink problem

 *  [zarkas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zarkas/)
 * (@zarkas)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-permalink-problem-3/)
 * Got a really strange problem with my permalinks. Yesterday they suddenly stopped
   working, now all my pages like [http://www.domain.com/about/](http://www.domain.com/about/)
   etc. gives me a 404 error.
 * My permalink structure is set to %postname%
 * htaccess is setup properly, and I even installed a new blog in a subdirectory
   to make sure it wasn’t a server issue.
 * If i revert back to default permalink setting the site works ok but that is not
   the best option in this case as we got a lot of deep links.
 * One of the things I tried yesterday was changing permalink structure to one of
   the other default settings /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/
    and now my pages was
   working again, but was a few problems with the webshop so I installed the “Top
   Level Categories” plugin which only made things worse, I then deactivated the
   plugin and deleted it. Now /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ wont work either, it
   also gives me a 404 on all pages.
 * I also tried the “Permalink Fix & Disable Canonical Redirects Pack” plugin but
   then everything just redirected to the home page.
 * I noticed that during the week when I logged in to my dashboard it said something
   about “to many redirects” warning but it still worked back then.
 * Any ideas how I can fix this?

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 *  [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * (@govpatel)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-permalink-problem-3/#post-2291547)
 * try renaming .htaccess file and then reset your permalinks so you have fresh 
   new .htaccess file.
 *  Thread Starter [zarkas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zarkas/)
 * (@zarkas)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-permalink-problem-3/#post-2291601)
 * Thanks for reply, but no luck, also tried that a few times, even various permissions
   on the htaccess file.
 *  Thread Starter [zarkas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zarkas/)
 * (@zarkas)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-permalink-problem-3/#post-2291718)
 * Update:
 * Got it working by installing a really old version of rewrite.php which pretty
   much made a whole mess of the site. Then upload the latest version of rewrite.
   php in the wp-include directory and now everything works as it should..
    doesn’t
   make much sense but glad its finally working.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [zarkas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zarkas/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-permalink-problem-3/#post-2291718)
 * Status: not resolved

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