Title: WordPress 3.1.2 Permalink Problem Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # WordPress 3.1.2 Permalink Problem * Resolved [eff-ess](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eff-ess/) * (@eff-ess) * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-312-permalink-problem/) * I’ve been developing a couple of websites locally and installed the latest version of WordPress – 3.1.2. * When I attempted to look over the sites to make sure everything was running correctly, Only the main page of the website was viewable. The blog section could not be accessed and kept throwing up an error 404. * The strange thing is, when I go to a particular post and save it back to Draft, it is then possible to view it. When published, nothing. * I changed the permalink structure from /%postname%/ back to the WP default, low and behold, everything is running as it should. However, this particular structure is not suitable for the running of the website and I need to use the /%postname%/ permalink structure. * It would appear that this latest version of WP has broken the permalink structure in some way. * Is there a workaround for this does anyone know?? * Thanks in advance. Viewing 8 replies - 16 through 23 (of 23 total) [←](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-312-permalink-problem/?output_format=md) [1](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-312-permalink-problem/?output_format=md) 2 * [bigbt25](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigbt25/) * (@bigbt25) * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-312-permalink-problem/page/2/#post-2057495) * I have the same theme installed on that server in a different folder, but it is on WordPress v3.0 It is working fine with the Permalink redirection. * [http://sjrtheater.com/sjr/](http://sjrtheater.com/sjr/) * [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/) * (@govpatel) * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-312-permalink-problem/page/2/#post-2057496) * try and rename .htaccess file and then reset your permalinks * [bigbt25](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigbt25/) * (@bigbt25) * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-312-permalink-problem/page/2/#post-2057497) * It’s a windows server, so there is no .htaccess file. * [bigbt25](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigbt25/) * (@bigbt25) * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-312-permalink-problem/page/2/#post-2057498) * Just an update. I found a plug-in which you can download and then upload to WP. It fixed the problem… 🙂 * [http://wpcodesnippets.info/blog/wcs-custom-permalinks-hotfix.html](http://wpcodesnippets.info/blog/wcs-custom-permalinks-hotfix.html) * [Luke America](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lukeamerica2020/) * (@lukeamerica2020) * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-312-permalink-problem/page/2/#post-2057500) * [@bigbt25](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigbt25/): * Thanks for the bump. Glad the plug-in worked for you. My tracking indicates that it solves the issue for about 85% of the WP installations that suffer from the bug. * Hopefully, the WP team will implement a permanent fix in the 3.2 upgrade. Well… er … ah … restore the functionality that was used for the last 3 years. 🙂 * Nonetheless, because of the way I coded the hotfix to use internal canonical URI structures, it should work in perpetuity. * [thebosscv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thebosscv/) * (@thebosscv) * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-312-permalink-problem/page/2/#post-2057518) * Hi all, * thanks, for your help as govpatel said this error is not a problem of permalinks in other mode but a problem of mod_rewrite of apache is off. * I tested it on the version wp 3.1 and 3.1.2 and if you have mod_rewrite off both error accur, so in order to solve this issue on both version you have to do the follow: * 1 – go to the httpd.conf file: F:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.17\conf\httpd.conf 2 – open the file and uncommented the follow line: **#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so** -default version **LoadModule rewrite_module modules/ mod_rewrite.so** – uncommented 3 – now i * [thebosscv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thebosscv/) * (@thebosscv) * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-312-permalink-problem/page/2/#post-2057519) * 3 – now it will work ok 🙂 * Once again thanks for your help * Regards, * theboss * [roger.bankes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogerbankes/) * (@rogerbankes) * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-312-permalink-problem/page/2/#post-2057531) * I have applied the fix but still get 404s on Permalinks. The current discussion is at * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-find-page-after-changing-settings-to-use-year-month-name-system?replies=2#post-2140277](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-find-page-after-changing-settings-to-use-year-month-name-system?replies=2#post-2140277) Viewing 8 replies - 16 through 23 (of 23 total) [←](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-312-permalink-problem/?output_format=md) [1](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-312-permalink-problem/?output_format=md) 2 The topic ‘WordPress 3.1.2 Permalink Problem’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [failure](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/failure/) * [permalink](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalink/) * [upgrade](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upgrade/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 23 replies * 9 participants * Last reply from: [roger.bankes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogerbankes/) * Last activity: [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-312-permalink-problem/page/2/#post-2057531) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics