On second try, menu items fail to link
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I’ve been tasked with editing and updating a WordPress site and used Duplicator.
The Home page is there and all works, after deployment. However, menus that are supposed to link to pages instead reach 404/not found. The pages’ permalinks (in the admin panel) show the correct link but do not display when the menu on the home page is pressed (like they do perfectly in the tutorial video on the topic, which of course doesn’t tell me what to do when this goes wrong).
I updated WP to current version from the one on the original site and retested, same problem.
I should mention that this “sandbox” install is on a WAMP server on my personal desktop computer. An example of the problem (public site is http://www.artsanonymous.org and menu items are “ABOUT ARTS”, “MEETINGS” etc. which work fine on the main site but not on the duplicator-created sandbox on my computer). ARTS organization approved my sharing the website with you for testing and support purposes, we welcome all visitors!
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On further search, I discovered that a file in Apache needed to be changed and the services restarted, then the permalinks worked. The sole change needed was the removal of a hash commenting out the line “LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so” in httpd.conf; the other line in that file referred to deep in the codex.wordpress.org article on permalinks was actually correct, saying “AllowOverride all” rather than none.
I hope this saves someone ferreting this out for me, and in advance thanks for being willing to do so. Finding that piece of documentation was like finding a one-line needle in an Internet-sized haystack. Thanks for being there in any case.
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