Title: Cannot view wordpress generated output files Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Cannot view wordpress generated output files * Resolved [spineless](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spineless/) * (@spineless) * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-view-wordpress-generated-output-files/) * I recently had to reload linux back onto my machine. I backup my website and attempted to reinstall it in my home directory. * I am running Ubuntu 10.10 with a LAMP and WordPress 3.1 * The problem I have is that I can see my home page of the website but I cannot see any other pages such as the about us, contact, etc. When I click on the link on the home page to these internal pages I get the following error. * Not Found * The requested URL /about-2/ was not found on this server. Apache/2.2.16 (Ubuntu) Server at [http://www.website2.ca](http://www.website2.ca) Port 80 * I believe this might be an issue with the perma links but when I check the page in the admin area I can see the perma link is ok. When I preview the page I get the same error. * The site is located in my HOME directory in Linux. It is located inside a user directory that has “DESKTOP USER” privileges. The directory for the website is owned by www-data with the group www-data. SO the directory and files look like this. * Directories drwxr-xr-r-x www-data:www-data Most files -rw-r— r– www-data:www-data * How do I fix the permissions so that wordpress will display the internal website pages? Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * [arkgroup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arkgroup/) * (@arkgroup) * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-view-wordpress-generated-output-files/#post-1957914) * spineless, * You should have .htaccess file with rewrite rules in wordpress folder. Do you have this file? * Thread Starter [spineless](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spineless/) * (@spineless) * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-view-wordpress-generated-output-files/#post-1957918) * Yes I do have an .htaccess file. This was copied from the old install and it used to work…. and it should still work. As I mentioned the home page of the website can be displayed. Here is a copy of the highlights. * * RewriteEngine On * RewriteBase / * RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f * RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d * RewriteRule . /index.php [L] * ……redirect 301 rules * * # BEGIN WordPress * * RewriteEngine On * RewriteBase / * RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L] * RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f * RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d * RewriteRule . /index.php [L] * * # END WordPress * In addition to this information I took a look at the Apache2 error log and this is the last couple of errors that were generated. * [Sat Mar 05 13:07:51 2011] [error] [client 100.2.18.14] File does not exist: / home/USER/www/WEBSITE2/about-2, referer: [http://www.website2.ca/](http://www.website2.ca/) [ Sat Mar 05 13:07:54 2011] [error] [client 100.2.18.14] File does not exist: / home/USER/www/WEBSITE2/services, referer: [http://www.website2.ca/](http://www.website2.ca/)[ Sat Mar 05 13:07:57 2011] [error] [client 100.2.18.14] File does not exist: / home/USER/www/website2/referrals-2, referer: [http://www.website2.ca/](http://www.website2.ca/) * I am not sure why ” The file does not exist”. Does this help? * [arkgroup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arkgroup/) * (@arkgroup) * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-view-wordpress-generated-output-files/#post-1957925) * Try to disable permalinks from admin panel and then enable it again. Also try to insert this line to the beginning of a .htaccess file: * Options +FollowSymlinks * Make sure mod_rewrite installed. Just create simple phpinfo file and look for mod_rewrite there. * [arkgroup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arkgroup/) * (@arkgroup) * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-view-wordpress-generated-output-files/#post-1957928) * [Sat Mar 05 13:07:51 2011] [error] [client 100.2.18.14] File does not exist: / home/USER/www/WEBSITE2/about-2, referer: [http://www.website2.ca/](http://www.website2.ca/) * It tries to open a directory index file in about-2 folder instead of rewriting the url for some reason. * Thread Starter [spineless](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spineless/) * (@spineless) * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-view-wordpress-generated-output-files/#post-1957933) * Thanks a lot Arkgroup. * I totally forgot to enable mod-rewrite. Once I did this everything is working now. * Sudo a2enmode rewrite Sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload Sudo/etc/init.d/apache2 restart * check phpinfo.php and it is good! Website is up again. * Thanks Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘Cannot view wordpress generated output files’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [404 not found](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/404-not-found/) * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) * 5 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [spineless](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spineless/) * Last activity: [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-view-wordpress-generated-output-files/#post-1957933) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics