Title: Permalink Broken – 404 Error
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Permalink Broken – 404 Error

 *  [JoshJackC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshjackc/)
 * (@joshjackc)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-broken-404-error/)
 * After going into settings and changing the permalink structure from default to
   post name it no longer links to any of the pages in the menu.
 * I get the error
    “404 – File or directory not found; The resource you are looking
   for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.”
 * I thought maybe it can no longer find it so on the actual page itself in the 
   backend I made sure the permalink was the page name and if it was not I change
   it.
 * Still no luck.
 * I then went to my menus and created links to each page instead of using the pages
   option itself. Still no luck.
 * I read a few forums and it said to change it back to default, didn’t work. Changed
   it back to post name, doesn’t work.
 * I am not sure what is going on here but this seems rather bizarre, I have never
   had this kind of issue with any wordpress sites in the past.
 * Thoughts?

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 *  [Radices](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radices/)
 * (@radices)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-broken-404-error/#post-5595045)
 * Can you post the URL please. Also can you post the contents of the htaccess file.
 * There seems to be a lot of Permalink issues lately. The standard debug methods
   is to disable all your plugins and test it. If it solves the issue then activate
   the plugins one at a time until it breaks again. Try a different theme is another
   step.
 *  Thread Starter [JoshJackC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshjackc/)
 * (@joshjackc)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-broken-404-error/#post-5595046)
 * Also, tried to create a brand new page, thinking If i had to I would retreat 
   each page and link the new ones but I get the same error. Any page I try to view
   even in the page editor with the “view page” link still gets me the same error.
 *  Thread Starter [JoshJackC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshjackc/)
 * (@joshjackc)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-broken-404-error/#post-5595051)
 * URL is newsite.seymourtv.net
 *  Thread Starter [JoshJackC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshjackc/)
 * (@joshjackc)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-broken-404-error/#post-5595059)
 * Tried disabling all plugins, which disables my navigation menu so I had no way
   to even check the permalink. Tried typing in the url to a page and still received
   the same error, I have re-enabled al the plugins and have reached out to our 
   IT guy to find the hatches file
 *  [Radices](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radices/)
 * (@radices)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-broken-404-error/#post-5595062)
 * This is a good write-up on these kind of issues.
 * [http://websynthesis.com/fixing-wordpress-404-errors/](http://websynthesis.com/fixing-wordpress-404-errors/)
 * Really need to check the .htaccess file. I think its better to put it back to
   default permalinks and debug that first …then look at the rewrite rules and get
   the pretty links working.
 *  Thread Starter [JoshJackC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshjackc/)
 * (@joshjackc)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-broken-404-error/#post-5595079)
 * Figured it out but wanted to share for anyone else that might have this issue.
   Our server is through Windows IIS and we had to set up URL Rewrites for WordPress
   under IIS on a Windows Server. Don’t ask me how, I had to sit with our IT guy
   and he figured it out but hopefully this give some people direction…

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 * Last reply from: [JoshJackC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshjackc/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-broken-404-error/#post-5595079)
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