Title: Permalink Issue
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Permalink Issue

 *  [bwboykin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bwboykin/)
 * (@bwboykin)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-36/)
 * Hello,
 * I just recently launched a site and made sure to disable permalinks before uploading.
   The site comes up fine but when I go to enable permalinks I get a ‘400 Bad Error
   Request’.
 * The .htaccess file was blank and I even change CHMOD to 777 to see if it was 
   a write error and that didn’t help. I even pasted in code to make URL’s rewritable
   and got the same error.
 * Is there anything that I am missing?
 * Thank you

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 *  [Darin Kotter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dkotter/)
 * (@dkotter)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-36/#post-2502823)
 * Do you have the [mod_rewrite module](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)
   enabled on your server? If not, you’ll probably need to contact your host to 
   get that set up.
 *  Thread Starter [bwboykin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bwboykin/)
 * (@bwboykin)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-36/#post-2502854)
 * dkotter,
 * Thanks for the response. I just checked and it is enabled.
 * Any other ideas?
 * Thanks
 *  [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/)
 * (@swansonphotos)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-36/#post-2502856)
 * What did you set the permalinks to?
 *  Thread Starter [bwboykin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bwboykin/)
 * (@bwboykin)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-36/#post-2502865)
 * `%postname%`
 *  Thread Starter [bwboykin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bwboykin/)
 * (@bwboykin)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-36/#post-2502873)
 * Just a guess here but if PHP is operating in safe mode might that be a cause?
 *  [AITpro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aitpro/)
 * (@aitpro)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-36/#post-2502890)
 * > %postname%
 * Did you literally add this in the custom permalink structure window?
 * if so you are missing the slashes.
 * and your custom permalink structure should start with a numeric Tag
 * Examples:
 * /%post_id%/%postname%/
 * or
 * /%year%/%postname%/
 *  Thread Starter [bwboykin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bwboykin/)
 * (@bwboykin)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-36/#post-2502892)
 * I’ve added the slashes before and after so sorry for any confusion. I am using
   a permalink structure for the pages, not posts, on this site as the owner does
   not intend to operate a blog.
 * Thank you
 *  [AITpro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aitpro/)
 * (@aitpro)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-36/#post-2502896)
 * Well looking around at what other people found out who have experienced this 
   400 error problem when attempting update permalinks was >>> the majority of them
   needed to contact their Hosts to have the Host change something in httpd.conf
   or some other Virtual Server-side file.
 *  Thread Starter [bwboykin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bwboykin/)
 * (@bwboykin)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-36/#post-2502899)
 * I’m in the process of doing that.
 * I just went through and selected different permalink options and when saved all
   returned that error.
 * Thanks AITpro!
 *  [AITpro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aitpro/)
 * (@aitpro)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-36/#post-2502901)
 * And a couple of other things that you should do on your end.
 * Do a Database Repair and Optimize your WP DB

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 * 10 replies
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 * Last reply from: [AITpro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aitpro/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-36/#post-2502901)
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