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1. IanHobson
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'm, running Windows XP and WAMP onelick, and trying to set up WP as a CMS, so I can create a new theme and site.

   I installed WordPress to / and it worked just fine "out of the box".

   Now I need to alter the permalinks so that pages have a SEO URL - e.g pages are http://example.com/slug and posts are http://example.com/blog/title.

   I altered the permalinks, and even with provided options (other that default) I get "page not found errors for every page, except the home and admin pages.

   .htaccess is writable, and mod rewrite is on.

   How can I change the permalinks to a SEO friendly style?

   Ian

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   and mod rewrite is on.

   Makes me wonder if that is true?

3. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 2 years 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.

   ref
   http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/

4. IanHobson
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks for the replies guys. Sadly they didn't help.

   As already stated, mod-rewrite is both enabled and on, and I am using WAMP One click installer not XAMPP (same line in http.conf).

   This is the virtual host definition.

   <VirtualHost *:80>
      ServerName  chocolate.leda.hcs
      ServerAdmin ian@deleted
      DocumentRoot "D:\GitRepositories\Carrie"
   	RewriteEngine On
   	<Directory "D:\GitRepositories\Carrie">
   		Options Indexes
   		Order allow,deny
   		Allow from all
   	</Directory>
   </VirtualHost>

   The .htaccess file is
   

   # BEGIN WordPress
   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
   </IfModule>
   
   # END WordPress

   Every page except the Home" page gives me a reply such as

   The requested URL /about/ was not found on this server.

   Unless I have the default permalink set. Then things work correctly.

   So what is going wrong? Ideas anyone?

   Ian

   p.s. I have removed and re-installed wordpress from a fresh download, just to remove the possibility of a corruption.

5. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   honestly I have never got wamp to work right out of the box
   xampp on the other hand works every time
   sorry not more help

6. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   What happens if you rename your .htaccess file?

7. marcvdwurff
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks samboll, this works fine for me on clean install of WAMPserver 2.0 on Windows XP (running standalone on localhost).

8. room339
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   In WAMP you need to turn on the rewrite_module. To do this click on the WAMP icon in your task bar and navigate to: Apache>Apache modules> Scroll down to rewrite_module and click it. Once you do this your pages should work immediately.

9. alamster
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I ever face that problem and my solution :

   Find these lines (in httpd.conf) :

   #LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

   remove # sign

   and this line

   <Directory />
   Options FollowSymLinks
   AllowOverride None
   Order deny,allow
   Deny from all
   </Directory>

   change into this :

   <Directory />
   Options FollowSymLinks
   AllowOverride FileInfo Options
   Order deny,allow
   Deny from all
   </Directory>

   Save and Restart apache followed by retest your permalink.

   ( I take it from my blog post that utilize xampp but I think it's not different in wamp).

10. matphoto
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    @room339

    Thanks! That worked perfectly.

11. vinnyred
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    @room339 - Your solution was perfect and within seconds the permalinks were prettier than a sunrise in the mountains :-)

    Wamp with wordpress installed locally looks great. No more FTP(ing) yourself senseless!

12. nathan_v
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    @room339 Thank you!! it works great :-)

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