Title: link/permalink error, 404
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# link/permalink error, 404

 *  [Grapho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grapho/)
 * (@grapho)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linkpermalink-error-404/)
 * I had made a parent page with a few child pages like so:
 * About Us
    -Our Mission -History -Our Founder
 * To double-check, I browsed phpMyAdmin to ensure that the pages and their content
   was indeed written to the database.
 * On the blog itself, I can use the search form, and get results for the pages,
   but I cannot link to the actual pages.
 * I get the 404 error whether I enter the url in the address bar or use one of 
   the links.
 * I tried changing permalink settings and even different wp themes, with no luck.
 * Any ideas?
    Thanks!

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 *  Thread Starter [Grapho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grapho/)
 * (@grapho)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linkpermalink-error-404/#post-750527)
 * There have been a few other posts like this, with their own conclusions. yet 
   they don’t solve this issue. What is happening to my content?
 * page.php and index.php wont bring up the content that is stored on the database.
 * My instinct is that the code is not recognizing the permalink, and therefore 
   thinks it doesn’t exist on the server. Yet I have changed the permalink settings
   and even went as far as deleting the old pages and making entirely new pages.
   No improvement.
 *  Thread Starter [Grapho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grapho/)
 * (@grapho)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linkpermalink-error-404/#post-750543)
 * Bah, here is the new development.
 * I can only use the default permalink structure in wordpress.
 * Using a custom permalink or even the other preset permalink structures in wordpress
   will result in the 404 error.
 * Any way to fix this?
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linkpermalink-error-404/#post-750546)
 * Most of the recent similar cases were, actually, about blogs hacked _prior_ to
   the upgrade to 2.5.
    Did you find those threads? If yes, did you check your folders
   to make sure it wasn’t hacked?
 *  [firstpeter3jude3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/firstpeter3jude3/)
 * (@firstpeter3jude3)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linkpermalink-error-404/#post-750623)
 * I have the same problem, I can only use the default setting since upgrading to
   2.5 and 2.5.1
 * My previous customize permalink setting no longer works. this leaves me with 
   lots of links in posts to previous articles which no longer function.
 *  Thread Starter [Grapho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grapho/)
 * (@grapho)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linkpermalink-error-404/#post-750707)
 * I may have found the answer (at least in my case).
 * My apache was not set to rewrite my .htaccess file to allow wordpress to create
   custom permalinks.
 * I go to where apache is installed and opened: apache/conf/httpd file, scrolled
   down to
    - LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
 *  and deleted the ‘#’ in front of it (which activates it).
 * It may be worth checking that out. Also wordpress.org says that windows servers
   running IIS6 (or whatever it is) can cause problems writing to the .htaccess.
 * In conclusion, it is the .htaccess file that allows custom links. So when you
   upgrade to a new version of WP make sure that file is not over-written or deleted.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linkpermalink-error-404/#post-750709)
 * There is no htaccess on Win servers.
 *  [artistic-hideaway](https://wordpress.org/support/users/artistic-hideaway/)
 * (@artistic-hideaway)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linkpermalink-error-404/#post-751057)
 * Was this solved somehow? I’m having the same problem…
 * I tried
    PATHINFO permalinks; starting with index.php/……etc.
 * plus added php.ini file and it’s still not working….
 * my blog is on [http://www.helenakadlcikova.com/blog](http://www.helenakadlcikova.com/blog)
   
   permalinks are disabled right now as it causes problems displaying pages…
 * Is there anything I could try to fix it?
    I can’t use the custom 404 redirect
   solution.
 * I’m running wordpress 2.7, Windows server IIS6, PHP5.2.3
 * Thanks.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 7 replies
 * 4 participants
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 * Last activity: [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linkpermalink-error-404/#post-751057)
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