Title: 404 and Permalinks
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# 404 and Permalinks

 *  [fredhead](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredhead/)
 * (@fredhead)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-and-permalinks/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m using a custom URL permalink that worked fine yesterday and today does not
   work. The same pages generate a 404 error message, pulling the 404 template. 
   I’d appreciate any ideas.
 * First, I have a single.php template file and it works fine when I use one of 
   the default WP permalink structures.
 * Second, the permalink structure that worked yesterday but not today is:
 * /content/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%hour%.%minute%.%second
 * These match current links to 1600+ posts and I’m trying to avoid having to manage
   htaccess redirects when I migrate from Moveable Type to WP.
 * Third, the htaccess output, regardless of what permalink structure I use is:
 * # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /dev/
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule./
   dev/index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress
 * Fourth, the htaccess file is CHMOD 777 and WP doesn’t choke when I update the
   permalinks.
 * Any ideas what to look at to resolve this problem? Thanks!

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 *  Thread Starter [fredhead](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredhead/)
 * (@fredhead)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-and-permalinks/#post-937896)
 * If it matters to someone searching, I believe the problem is the use of the text
   string ‘content’ in my permalinks. WordPress works fine if I remove that first
   non-variable portion of my permalinks. Even though it displayed fine yesterday.
 * I’ve tried every fix mentioned in this forum, to no avail, that would allow me
   to put my own text (rather than a variable) in my permalinks. When I did a dif
   between the internal WP rewrite rules, using the AskApache plugin, between permalinks
   that worked and failed, the text string ‘content’ was the only difference.
 * **If anyone knows WordPress well enough to suggest how to fix this, I’d appreciate
   your ideas.** I find it hard to believe inserting a text string would cause a
   problem. For example, the internal WP rewrite rules use text strings like ‘tag’
   with no problem.
 *  [natetronn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/natetronn/)
 * (@natetronn)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-and-permalinks/#post-938099)
 * I ran into a problem similar although my custom permalink structure was this:
 * /%category%/%postname%/
 * Everything worked fine except when you went into the article itself it would 
   give a 404.
 * Solution I found:
 * Deactivated all plugins and then one by one reactivated and tested to weed a 
   possible cause.
 * “Search Everything” version 4.7.8 was the cause in my case.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [natetronn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/natetronn/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-and-permalinks/#post-938099)
 * Status: not resolved

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