Title: Getting 404 on posts in Windows using WordPress 3 Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Getting 404 on posts in Windows using WordPress 3 * [emergingdzns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emergingdzns/) * (@emergingdzns) * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-404-on-posts-in-windows-using-wordpress-3/) * One of our employees upgraded a site to version 3 today and now urls that refer to specific posts, issue a 404 error on Windows based browsers but NOT on Mac browsers. * It’s driving me nuts. Try the following link on your Windows and Mac and see what I mean. Worked just fine before WordPress 3. * Please help! * [http://www.cohnrestaurants.com/wine-and-dime-is-back/](http://www.cohnrestaurants.com/wine-and-dime-is-back/) * Thank you! Andrew Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-404-on-posts-in-windows-using-wordpress-3/#post-1556006) * They’re 404 on Mac browsers too. Try clearing the caches on your Mac browsers. * Try re-saving your permalink structure at Settings/Permalinks in your admin panel. If WordPress cannot automatically edit the `.htaccess` file, it will provide manual instructions after saving. * Thread Starter [emergingdzns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emergingdzns/) * (@emergingdzns) * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-404-on-posts-in-windows-using-wordpress-3/#post-1556027) * In my Mac it’s not erroring, but is on Windows. * I tried to do the permalinks thing but it didn’t change anything. It didn’t show me any instructions either. I know it worked too because I was able to change it to /%category%/%postname%/ and then I could view it in Mac with the category in the url but Windows still doesn’t like it. * It’s interesting to note also that if I try to view the url using the “ugly” url: [http://www.cohnrestaurants.com/?p=537](http://www.cohnrestaurants.com/?p=537) it automatically redirects to the friendly url I originally gave, EVEN when I had permalinks set to use the “ugly” style. * Man WP3 needed a lot more testing. * Thread Starter [emergingdzns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emergingdzns/) * (@emergingdzns) * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-404-on-posts-in-windows-using-wordpress-3/#post-1556028) * Oh it’s also interesting to note that PAGES don’t have a problem. Only POSTS. * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-404-on-posts-in-windows-using-wordpress-3/#post-1556033) * [http://www.cohnrestaurants.com/wine-and-dime-is-back/](http://www.cohnrestaurants.com/wine-and-dime-is-back/) is a 404 error for me under both Safari 5.0 and Camino 2.0.3 on Mac OS X 10.6.4. * Have you tried clearing your browser cache? * Try decativating all plugins. If that resolves the issue, reactivate each one individually until you find the cause. * If that did not resolve the issue, try just the Default permalink structure. * > Man WP3 needed a lot more testing * After several hundred volunteers used WP 3 on their personal sites for over half a year, I doubt your problem is being caused by WP 3. * Thread Starter [emergingdzns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emergingdzns/) * (@emergingdzns) * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-404-on-posts-in-windows-using-wordpress-3/#post-1556043) * I tried disabling the plugins. That didn’t help either. Aren’t posts and pages basically the same thing? Just a couple field values different in the database right? * Could it be that the upgrade didn’t update all the files? * Thanks for your help. * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-404-on-posts-in-windows-using-wordpress-3/#post-1556044) * They are basically the same thing, but pages don’t have categories. * Does it work when you use the Default permalink structure? * Thread Starter [emergingdzns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emergingdzns/) * (@emergingdzns) * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-404-on-posts-in-windows-using-wordpress-3/#post-1556053) * No it doesn’t. I’ve tried every permalink structure option and none of them work. Is there a new .htaccess (or modifications to that file) that maybe I am missing? * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-404-on-posts-in-windows-using-wordpress-3/#post-1556057) * Not that I can think of. Re-generate your permalink structure again and make sure that your `.htaccess` file has this: * ``` # BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] # END WordPress ``` * [webjunk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webjunk/) * (@webjunk) * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-404-on-posts-in-windows-using-wordpress-3/#post-1556260) * It does not work maybe because you have the name of the page wrong??? The correct link should be: [http://www.cohnrestaurants.com/wine-dime-is-coming-back/](http://www.cohnrestaurants.com/wine-dime-is-coming-back/) Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) The topic ‘Getting 404 on posts in Windows using WordPress 3’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/post/) * [windows](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/windows/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 9 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [webjunk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webjunk/) * Last activity: [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-404-on-posts-in-windows-using-wordpress-3/#post-1556260) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics