Title: Permalinks troubleshooting
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Permalinks troubleshooting

 *  [sweetchili](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sweetchili/)
 * (@sweetchili)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/peralinks/)
 * I can’t get the permalinks to work. I have upgraded to the latest version 2.6.1
   and tried different themes, nothing works; either a 404 error is displayed, or
   the main page is permanently displayed. Thanks.

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 *  [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
 * (@iridiax)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/peralinks/#post-846780)
 * Here’s more info: [Using “Pretty” permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Using_.22Pretty.22_permalinks)
 * If your server uses IIS, then check out: [Permalinks without mod_rewrite](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Permalinks_without_mod_rewrite)
 *  [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/peralinks/#post-846785)
 * You do have an .htaccess file in your WP root, correct? CHMOD it to 666, THEN
   turn on permalinks, and THEN after WP updates the permalink structure, CHMOD 
   it back to 644.
 *  Thread Starter [sweetchili](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sweetchili/)
 * (@sweetchili)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/peralinks/#post-846869)
 * Where do I find the CHMOD setting? If it should be in the .htaccess file, something
   went wrong. The file is the following with permalinks enabled:
 * # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond%{
   REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.
   php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress
 * Thanks.
 *  Thread Starter [sweetchili](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sweetchili/)
 * (@sweetchili)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/peralinks/#post-846914)
 * Okay, I found the CHMOD function, but FTP is not allowing me to change this? 
   How can I do this?

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## Tags

 * [404-error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/404-error/)
 * [htaccess](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/htaccess/)
 * [permalink](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalink/)
 * [permalinks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalinks/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [sweetchili](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sweetchili/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/peralinks/#post-846914)
 * Status: not resolved

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