Title: Permalink change is causing problems
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Permalink change is causing problems

 *  [ajcke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emerinea/)
 * (@emerinea)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-change-is-causing-problems/)
 * I recently changed my MU installation permalink structure so my site would work
   with WP-Menu plugin. I changed the permalink structure from from the Default:
   [http://hardinnorthern.org/?p=123](http://hardinnorthern.org/?p=123)
    to a Custom:
   blog/%postname%/
 * Now I keep getting 404 (page not found) error reports in my email inbox.
 * All most all of the 404 reports are from images.
 * Here’s a list of some of the reports:
 * A user tried to go to [http://hardinnorthern.org/images/footer_r.jpg](http://hardinnorthern.org/images/footer_r.jpg)
   and received a 404 (page not found) error. It wasn’t their fault, so try fixing
   it.
    They came from [http://hardinnorthern.org/](http://hardinnorthern.org/)
 * A user tried to go to [http://hardinnorthern.org/images/footer_backToTop.jpg](http://hardinnorthern.org/images/footer_backToTop.jpg)
   and received a 404 (page not found) error. It wasn’t their fault, so try fixing
   it.
    They came from [http://hardinnorthern.org/](http://hardinnorthern.org/)
 * I realize that these images are not in the root/images folder but in the theme
   folder.
 * What can I do to solve this? Anything else I need to look out for?

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 *  Thread Starter [ajcke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emerinea/)
 * (@emerinea)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-change-is-causing-problems/#post-1422910)
 * I noticed that I do not have a htaccess file. Is this the problem?
 * If so what do I need to do to get this custom permalink to work? The [codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)(
   which I don’t fully understand) states that in previous versions of WP using %
   postname% was not recommended, but maybe okay for versions after 2.2.
 * Also when I created a custom permalink structure was wordpress supposed to create
   the htaccess file? If this is the case, maybe I have a permission issue that 
   needs resolved first.
 *  Thread Starter [ajcke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emerinea/)
 * (@emerinea)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-change-is-causing-problems/#post-1422915)
 * HELP!
 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-change-is-causing-problems/#post-1422916)
 * Also when I created a custom permalink structure was wordpress supposed to create
   the htaccess file? If this is the case, maybe I have a permission issue that 
   needs resolved first.
 * Yes, WP should have created the .htaccess, which you need for permalinks. If 
   it didn’t usually code is recommended to you (in WP) to create your own
 *  Thread Starter [ajcke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emerinea/)
 * (@emerinea)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-change-is-causing-problems/#post-1422919)
 * Ok, I do have an .htaccess file. For some reason the ftp client I was using wasn’t
   displaying it. Below is what’s in it. What do I need to change to use %postname%
   permalink structure?
 * # Use PHP5 Single php.ini as default
    AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5s .php
   RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /
 * #uploaded files
    RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}!.*
   wp-content/plugins.* #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR] #RewriteCond %{
   REQUEST_FILENAME} -d #RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !courses.hardinnorthern.org RewriteRule
   ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]
 * # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$
   RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1/ [R=301,L]
 * RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule.–[
   L] RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*) $2 [L] RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.
   php)$ $2 [L] RewriteRule . index.php [L]
 * <IfModule mod_security.c>
    <Files async-upload.php> SecFilterEngine Off SecFilterScanPOST
   Off </Files> </IfModule> # For security reasons, Option all cannot be overridden.#
   Options All -Indexes Options ExecCGI Includes IncludesNOEXEC IncludesNOEXEC MultiViews
   SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Indexes -Indexes

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

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 * Last reply from: [ajcke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emerinea/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-change-is-causing-problems/#post-1422919)
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