XAMPP change permalinks causes Error 500

  • mickyholmes

    (@mickyholmes)


    10 years, 9 months ago

    Hello there,
    perhaps someone can help me out.

    I’m running wordpress on XAMPP, I want to develop a new site on localhost before I publish to the web. When I change the permalink settings to anything except default the site and dashboard both crash, I get Server Error 500.

    I’ve searched the forums and found that if I delete the .htaccess file the site comes back and error goes away.

    Is there a way that I can solve this problem properly and use ‘pretty permalinks’? I’ve seen that I might need to edit httpd.conf but I’m not sure what this is or how to do it.

    This is my first attempt at a wordpress site, please don’t assume I am an expert or anything!

    Thanks for the help,
    Michael

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  • Thread Starter mickyholmes

    (@mickyholmes)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    …here’s the contents of .htaccess if that helps:

    # BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /xampp/yak-shak-mickyholmes/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /xampp/yak-shak-mickyholmes/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress
    Arturo

    (@epanetwp)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    Getting same error now, could not fixed following some other solutions found in the forum but I got fixed with this:

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabled-permalinks-now-getting-500-internal-error

    .httaccess deleted from the server and it got back up and running and permalinks stay as I set them up.

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