Title: WordPress Permalink Problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WordPress Permalink Problem

 *  Resolved [mwdewitt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mwdewitt/)
 * (@mwdewitt)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-permalink-problem/)
 * I tried to ask this question before, but no one sufficiently answered it. If 
   I am working on a local host, can I not change the permalink in WordPress until
   I upload it to the internet? Right now, my permalinks look like this:
 * [http://localhost/?page_id=5](http://localhost/?page_id=5)
 * And if I leave it like that, I can click on whatever I want to and it will work.
   But if I change the permalink to:
 * [http://localhost/projects/](http://localhost/projects/)
 * And also change the linking in the HTML to match, it does not work. I get a message
   saying, “404 Not Found: The requested URL /projects/ was not found on this server.”
   When it clearly does exist, because I just changed the permalink to that, but
   all of my links are broken. So, do I have to wait until I upload my site to the
   internet to change the permalinks?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-permalink-problem/#post-1925294)
 * Try enabling mod_rewrite on your local server.
 *  Thread Starter [mwdewitt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mwdewitt/)
 * (@mwdewitt)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-permalink-problem/#post-1925304)
 * How would I go about doing that? I searched “mod_rewrite localhost” on Google,
   but I did not find anything explaining on how to actually do it. I did not just
   want to come out and ask that question. Thank you in advance!
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-permalink-problem/#post-1925308)
 * Try looking in your server’s httpd.conf file
 *  Thread Starter [mwdewitt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mwdewitt/)
 * (@mwdewitt)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-permalink-problem/#post-1925317)
 * I finally found a tutorial that explains what mod_rewrite is and how to use it.
   I see what you are getting at, but it seems kind of impractical to have to mod_rewrite
   for every single one of my links. I plan on dealing with hundreds of links, eventually(
   to blog posts, forums, project pages, et cetera). There has to be a fix within
   WordPress.
 *  Moderator [cubecolour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/numeeja/)
 * (@numeeja)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-permalink-problem/#post-1925321)
 * > There has to be a fix within WordPress.
 * Why?
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)
 *  Thread Starter [mwdewitt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mwdewitt/)
 * (@mwdewitt)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-permalink-problem/#post-1925322)
 * I actually just found that link on WordPress. It explains that you need a mod_rewrite
   module in Apache. I found the httpd.conf file and opened it, but none of it really
   makes any sense to me. Where do I and how do I add the mod_rewrite module?
 *  Thread Starter [mwdewitt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mwdewitt/)
 * (@mwdewitt)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-permalink-problem/#post-1925344)
 * Problem solved. I went to this website:
    [http://roshanbh.com.np/2008/04/check-enable-mod_rewrite-apache.html](http://roshanbh.com.np/2008/04/check-enable-mod_rewrite-apache.html)
 * And I figured it out. Boy, I never would have guessed that that was what I was
   supposed to do. Thanks, guys!

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-permalink-problem/#post-1925344)
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