Permalinks won't work on anything but default

  • drlpnorris

    (@drlpnorris)


    13 years, 3 months ago

    I’m new to Word Press and I don’t know anythign about code. I have two websites with Word Press. On one I got the peramlinks to work by changing to the custom button and entering %category%/%pagename% which is the code a friend gave me. On that one, the permalinks work great, but when I try the same thing on my other site using the same code, it will only display the home page. All the other pages get a 404 error message. So on that site, the only way I can display all my pages is if I have the permalinks set on default. I don’t understand it since I am using the same version of Word Press on both sites, both sites are on the same host server, and I pretty much did every thing identically on both sites. I could really use some help, please remember I am a real techno dummy. Thanks. Pepper

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  • cb-rcw

    (@cb-rcw)

    13 years, 3 months ago

    What is your site and what do you want the permalinks to do that they’re not doing?

    ~RCW

    Thread Starter drlpnorris

    (@drlpnorris)

    13 years, 3 months ago

    I’d like to be able to rename the permalinks so the links don’t have numbers but names. But when I click on the custom permalinks button, and put in the code that my friend gave me %category%/%pagename% the site will only display the home page. If I try to go to another page on the site I get the error 404 message that says the page can’t be displayed. I double checked the code I put in and it is the same one I used on my other site. And it works perfectly there.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    13 years, 3 months ago

    Try resetting your custom permalinks back to the default setting. If this works, then review Using_Permalinks (which is a slightly more reliable source) before setting a custom permalink structure back up again.

    Also check with your host that mod_rewrite is running on your server.

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