Title: multi site looses permalink structure
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# multi site looses permalink structure

 *  [Becki Beckmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/becki/)
 * (@becki)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-site-looses-permalink-structure/)
 * hello there 😉
 * i just want to post another issue which happened to me quite a few times.
 * currently running the latest version 3.2 but this error is actually happening
   every time i upgrade WP to a newer version.
 * one of my multi sites ALWAYS looses the permalink structure! i use a custom structure
   like this -> /%category%/%postname%-%post_id%.html
 * and whenever i do an upgrade the permalink is gone and i get a 404 not found 
   error.
 * then i just go to the settings -> permalinks … select default -> save
    then insert
   the custom permalink structure again and click save again and all is fine again
   😉
 * but it is really sort of annoying to loose the permalink structure after EVERY
   upgrade. ok we can easily fix this be doing this default settings save and update
   settings again save thingy …
 * but probably someone can look into this and hopefully fix it?
 * thanks & all the best
    becki

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 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-site-looses-permalink-structure/#post-2168031)
 * There’s a plugin flushing your rewrite rules.
 *  Thread Starter [Becki Beckmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/becki/)
 * (@becki)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-site-looses-permalink-structure/#post-2168108)
 * hi andrea,
 * thanks for your reply …
 * don’t think that a plugin is flushing my rewrite rules in the htaccess file, 
   because then all other sites would be affected by this, which actually isn’t 
   the case
 * but i think a WP upgrade somehow might flush the settings for that multi site…
   or a plugin could cause that … in the database table ‘options’
 * sadly i don’t have much time to dig deeper into that. will keep on updating the
   permalink structure after every upgrade ..
 * but thought perhaps you guys would know about a fix for this issue
 * anyway … thanks a lot
    becki
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-site-looses-permalink-structure/#post-2168126)
 * The main rewrite rules aren’t in the htaccess file. The htaccess rules only redirect
   queries to the index file. The rewrite rules are located in the database, and
   you likely have a plugin causing the problem.
 *  Thread Starter [Becki Beckmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/becki/)
 * (@becki)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-site-looses-permalink-structure/#post-2168267)
 * hi otto,
 * thanks for the reply
 * where can i find those rewrite rules in the database? in the ‘options’ table?
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-site-looses-permalink-structure/#post-2168356)
 * In the wp_options table under the rewrite_rules field.

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 * [multisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multisite/)

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
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 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-site-looses-permalink-structure/#post-2168356)
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