Title: 404 error, htacces? Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # 404 error, htacces? * Resolved [jntechnologiesdivide](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jntechnologiesdivide/) * (@jntechnologiesdivide) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-htacces/) * I’m considering doing a re-install of WordPress on the server, but need to find out if that would actually solve the problem I seem to be having first. * When I type in the web address to any other page than my “home” page, I get the 404 error… and it also doesn’t pull up my stylesheet (not a huge deal). I can’t use the permalink, or the regular link. Now it seems even images I have on my site are turning up as incorrect links – same fashion. * I’ve read that I need to edit my .htaccess file, but cannot seem to find where that would be. Can you access that through the WordPress CMS? * It doesn’t seem to be theme related, as I tried installing one of the WordPress standard themes and had the same issue. * Thanks in advance! Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * Thread Starter [jntechnologiesdivide](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jntechnologiesdivide/) * (@jntechnologiesdivide) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-htacces/#post-4788938) * Also, this page is juuuuust gibberish, [https://codex.wordpress.org/htaccess](https://codex.wordpress.org/htaccess) and talks about it, but not how to edit it. * [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/) * (@claytonjames) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-htacces/#post-4788940) * > When I type in the web address to any other page than my “home” page, I get > the 404 error. * Have a look at this before continuing; [Using Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks) * If little of that makes sense, contact your hosts support staff or consult their FAQ to make sure that your server configuration supports mod_rewrite, and how you might take advantage of that to enable pretty permalinks for your web space. * > I’ve read that I need to edit my .htaccess file, but cannot seem to find where > that would be. Can you access that through the WordPress CMS? * In the event that you ever actually need to edit .htaccess (or any other file on your web space) manually, you can do that by using your FTP client or the file manager in your hosts control panel. The htaccess file is a hidden file by default, so you will need to turn on the “show hidden files” option in either of the tools I’ve mentioned. * Thread Starter [jntechnologiesdivide](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jntechnologiesdivide/) * (@jntechnologiesdivide) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-htacces/#post-4789134) * I did a reinstall of WordPress on the server, tried the “pretty links” and that didn’t work… so went with the “ugly” permalinks (I had the message “If your . htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t…” on the original install, when I did the reinstall it wasn’t there anymore). * Today I tried “pretty links” again, and it seems to work? Not sure how that ended up happening, but hopefully the change is permanent. Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The topic ‘404 error, htacces?’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [404-error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/404-error/) * [htaccess](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/htaccess/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 3 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [jntechnologiesdivide](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jntechnologiesdivide/) * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-htacces/#post-4789134) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics