Title: Permalink Issue
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Permalink Issue

 *  Resolved [dinoman15](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dinoman15/)
 * (@dinoman15)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-27/)
 * Hello,
    In my WordPress dashboard under Permalinks, I changed the settings to
   this: %category%/%postname% . Now all my links are broken. When I switch it back
   to the default, they work again. Does anyone have any idea why this is occurring?
 * Thanks

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 *  [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * (@govpatel)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-27/#post-2080312)
 * It is advised to category in permalinks
 *  %category%
    A sanitized version of the category name (category slug field on
   New/Edit Category panel). Nested sub-categories appear as nested directories 
   in the URI. Starting Permalinks with %category% is strongly not recommended for
   performance reasons.
 * You can read about it here
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)
 *  Thread Starter [dinoman15](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dinoman15/)
 * (@dinoman15)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-27/#post-2080460)
 * Thanks for the quick response Govpatel!
 * I removed my custom setting and tried one the recommended ones that is provided:
 * Month and name: …/2011/05/sample-post/
 * When I click on the pages I still get a Not Found error. For some reason I can
   only access the pages when I am using the default Permalink link settings (Ugly).
   It’s like when I change the setting, its not affecting the actual pages themselves,
   but rather the links to them.
 * I hope this makes sense and any help would appreciated.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-27/#post-2080463)
 * Check with your hosts that mod_rewrite is running on your server.
 *  Thread Starter [dinoman15](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dinoman15/)
 * (@dinoman15)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-27/#post-2080472)
 * Do you know if WAMP provides that? That’s what I am currently using.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-27/#post-2080473)
 * You need to make 2 changes within Apache if you want to use custom permalinks:
 * – Activate the rewrite module
    – Give permission for WordPress to rewrite
 * To activate the rewrite module, you need to edit your Apache configuration file–
   called httpd.conf – in NotePad.
 * Find the line that reads:
 * `# LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so`
 * And remove the hash sign (#) from the start of the line, so that it reads:
 * `LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so`
 * You then need to make a permissions change in the same file. Find the line that
   reads:
 * `<Directory "${path}/www">`
 * A few lines further down should be:
 * `AllowOverride None`
 * Change this to:
 * `AllowOverride All`
 * Save your httpd.conf file, then restart the Apache server.
 *  [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * (@govpatel)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-27/#post-2080525)
 * I wonder Why if only we knew that you are using wamp as you need to switch ON
   mod_rewrite as by default is switched off
 *  Thread Starter [dinoman15](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dinoman15/)
 * (@dinoman15)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-27/#post-2080578)
 * Thanks guys! It works now.

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 * Last activity: [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-27/#post-2080578)
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