Title: mod_rewrite not working on localhost? Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # mod_rewrite not working on localhost? * Resolved [Doodlebee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodlebee/) * (@doodlebee) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mod_rewrite-not-working-on-localhost/) * Hey all – I have an issue here. My “Pretty Permalinks” aren’t working on my local installation of WordPress. I found [this thread](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/45523?replies=19), and I *didn’t* have the Loadmodule uncommented. So I did that. Didn’t work. Then I doscovered when you do the LoadModule, you also have to edit the AddModule. So I did that. Still didn’t work. * I looked in my error logs, and found this error message: * Cannot remove module mod_rewrite.c: not found in module list * So I tried it all over again, restarted Apache (again) and the error message disappeared. But the pretty permalinks still do not work – I get a 404 page not found. * Am I missing something else? If it helps, I’m running Apache 1.3.34. If anyone has any ideas, I’d sure appreciate it. * [EDIT] By the way – rewrite *is* working. I checked my .htaccess file, and it’s being written to (and overwritten to) just fine. Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mod_rewrite-not-working-on-localhost/#post-474801) * Huh. I did have that problem about 4 versions of XAMPP back. The one I’m using now is Apache 2+ (not sure without digging), and it’s working just fine. What server combo are you using? XAMPP, MAMP, WAMP, winserver? * Thread Starter [Doodlebee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodlebee/) * (@doodlebee) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mod_rewrite-not-working-on-localhost/#post-474802) * Aha! I got it 🙂 * Apparently, “AllowOverride” is mentioned in more than one place in httpd.conf. I did a “find” thing and looked for “AllowOverride”, and found about 6 instances of it. I had only changed *one* instance – thinking it was the only one. I changed* all* of them from “none” to “all” and now they’re working just fine and dandy 🙂 * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mod_rewrite-not-working-on-localhost/#post-474803) * Heh, there you go…. that one can trip you up without even HALF trying…. * Thread Starter [Doodlebee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodlebee/) * (@doodlebee) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mod_rewrite-not-working-on-localhost/#post-474804) * Hey vkaryl 🙂 I don’t know what all those letters you posted mean LOL – I’m runnung Apache, PHP 4.4.2 and MySQL 5 on my Windows XP machine. I just downlaoded all of them and installed them together to get it all up and running. I don’t know if that qualifies as any of those things you mentioned up there – but it’s working now, anyway! * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mod_rewrite-not-working-on-localhost/#post-474805) * Really! Well, you must either be the luckiest person in the world, or a REAL guru…. it’s way easier to get all of them playing nicely together using XAMPP…. * Thread Starter [Doodlebee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodlebee/) * (@doodlebee) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mod_rewrite-not-working-on-localhost/#post-474807) * I’d go for the former. I found a really good tutorial on how to set them all up – but unless it’s hidden in my bookmarks somewhere (it probably is…somwehere…) I’ve lost it a while ago. I’ve had this setup for over 3 years now – works just great. As I recall, it wasn’t really that hard to do. But I probably should upgrade my Apache…(I’ve upgraded PHP and MySQL since the inital setup!)..I’ve just never thought I needed to since it seems to work fine! * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mod_rewrite-not-working-on-localhost/#post-474810) * I’ve run XAMPP since it was about 0.5 – maybe 6 years? I found it after trying to do the 3 parts together setup and failing abysmally…. * I think you might like to upgrade apache just because it’s starting to be the 2+ versions on various hosts – maybe not the uberuglies like godaddy (as who would care anyway?) but some of the smaller but more solid ones…. * Thread Starter [Doodlebee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodlebee/) * (@doodlebee) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mod_rewrite-not-working-on-localhost/#post-474814) * You have a point. I’m downloading the newer version now 🙂 I just remember I * didn’t* download verion 2 because at the time, it was still beta and reported as being kind of buggy. Maybe that’ll give you a hint as to how long I’ve had my setup going 😉 * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mod_rewrite-not-working-on-localhost/#post-474816) * *laughing* Oh yeah, I know the feeling…. of course, I always just do the beta stuff locally anyway – no biggie if it does something dumb, and gives one an idea what could go wrong in the “real world”! * That’s the nice thing about XAMPP – even the betas are pretty tight. * [harkos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harkos/) * (@harkos) * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mod_rewrite-not-working-on-localhost/#post-475280) * I’m having the very same problem described here: default permalink works, but pretty permalink doesn’t. I tried enabling “AllowOverride”, as described, but it still doesn’t work. Is there a way of making sure mod_rewrite is enabled? Or is there anything else I’m missing? * My config is a MacOS X 10.4.8, Apache 1.3.33 (built-in), PHP 5.2.1. By the way, is the correct config file for my server in /private/etc/httpd/httpd.conf? * Thanks everyone. * [harkos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harkos/) * (@harkos) * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mod_rewrite-not-working-on-localhost/#post-475281) * Just tried out using MAMP instead. Works perfectly. Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) The topic ‘mod_rewrite not working on localhost?’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 11 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [harkos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harkos/) * Last activity: [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mod_rewrite-not-working-on-localhost/#post-475281) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics