Permalinks not working

  • jimsmith

    (@jimsmith)


    13 years, 2 months ago

    Trying to install WP on local machine for testing. If I change Permalink to anything other than the default I get a 404, page not found.
    For example I go to the dashboard and select view for the “About” page I get a 404.

    The only changes made is to install and change Permalinks. NOTHING else.

    I am using a Mac OS X 10.6 and XAMPP.

    Jim Smith

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  • Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    13 years, 2 months ago

    If you want to use permalinks, you will need to make a change inside another file:
    Click the Start button, followed by My Computer > Main drive > Xampplite > apache > Conf and find the file httpd.conf. Open that in a text editor. Use the search facility in the editor to find “rewrite”. The line you need looks like this:

    #LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

    You need to take away the hash sign so it looks like this

    LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

    Now just save the file.

    Thread Starter jimsmith

    (@jimsmith)

    13 years, 2 months ago

    “Start Button”?

    I have a power button.. on my mac but no start button.

    You must be thinking of Windows OS.

    However I did find a the file: /applications/xampp/xamppfiles/etc/httpd.conf and that line is not commented out (no #).

    Jim Smith

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