Title: 404 error for custom permalink pages
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# 404 error for custom permalink pages

 *  [janestone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janestone/)
 * (@janestone)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-for-custom-permalink-pages/)
 * Hi, when I customize the permalink like “products/products_category/products 
   item”, there’ll be 404 error show up, how can i fix it?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/woocommerce/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/woocommerce/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [James Koster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jameskoster/)
 * (@jameskoster)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-for-custom-permalink-pages/#post-3894627)
 * Is your .htaccess file writable? If not you’ll need to CHMOD it to 777 or better
   yet edit the file directly.
 * Remember to set it back to 664 if you CHMOD to 777.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-for-custom-permalink-pages/#post-3894627)
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