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1. Dantes100
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Hi,

   I successfully transferred my blog to my computer with xampp. I now see the front page of the blog and the wp-admin with localhost/wordpress. However, whenever I click on an article-permalink I get an apache 404-page.

   I reinstalled a database back up and replaced all myblog.com with localhost/wordpress/.

   What went wrong?

   Thx
   Dantes

2. Dantes100
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I figured out that if I change the permalink structure back to "default" everything is fine.

   Back to "/%postname%/", and I get the 404 again.

   Any suggestions?

3. f888
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   it looks like you might have a problem with mod_rewrite
   basically, if mod_rewrite isn't active (and I think it isn't by default in xampp) the server doesn't know what to do with urls like /your-post-slug/, hence those posts won't work
   I made a quick search for it and found this
   http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/03/08/wordpress-permalinks-does-not-work-in-xampp-setup/

4. doodlebee
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   You're right - mod_rewrite is turned off by default in XAMPP. You need to uncomment that line in your apache httpd.conf file, and then restart apache.

5. Dantes100
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Thank you, f888, worked like a charm :) .

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