Title: Permalink Problem I need Urgent Help!
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Permalink Problem I need Urgent Help!

 *  [chietala](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chietala/)
 * (@chietala)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-i-need-urgent-help/)
 * I really need help with this problem I am having with a clients wordpress theme.
   I created a “test” version of the site and developed live here testing.chadwik.
   us. It works exactly how I want it to work on the clients website. So I started
   the migration process and got all the files FTPed to their server, exported the
   SQL database and uploaded it to the clients server. Everything transferred over
   correctly but the permalinks are busted.
 * I want them to simply display with the custom /%postname%/ permalink, but it 
   wont’t do it. When I set it to the custom structure of /%postname%/ I get 404
   page not found even though that in the admin panel where I can set the permalink
   for the page or post says its located at the post name I get 404.
 * This is a problem because it is not recognizing even /feed so my simplepie plugin
   isn’t bringing in past articles because it is getting 404ed when it looks for/
   feed.
 * The only thing works is if I set it to the default permalink IE ?post=123, I 
   can access the pages but the feed is still obviously broken.
 * I really need some urgent help, I’m sort of on a timeline and running out of 
   time.

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 *  [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
 * (@filosofo)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-i-need-urgent-help/#post-950196)
 * It sounds like you have not created [a `.htaccess` file](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Where.27s_my_.htaccess_file.3F).
 *  Thread Starter [chietala](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chietala/)
 * (@chietala)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-i-need-urgent-help/#post-950220)
 * The file is there inside where all the wordpress files are but it keeps telling
   me that wordpress can not write to it
 *  [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
 * (@filosofo)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-i-need-urgent-help/#post-950223)
 * Then copy the text it tells you to copy, and paste it into `.htaccess`
 *  Thread Starter [chietala](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chietala/)
 * (@chietala)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-i-need-urgent-help/#post-950227)
 * it still does not work. I have even changed the permissions to the file to 777
   and entered this rewrite:
 *     ```
       # BEGIN WordPress
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
       RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
       </IfModule>
   
       # END WordPress
       ```
   
 *  [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
 * (@filosofo)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-i-need-urgent-help/#post-950232)
 * Are you sure that you’re using a Microsoft IIS server? If you are, that fix may
   or may not work.
 * If you aren’t, then your `.htaccess` file should look something like this:
 *     ```
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
       RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
       </IfModule>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [chietala](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chietala/)
 * (@chietala)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-i-need-urgent-help/#post-950233)
 * Yea i just saw that WordPress had actually wrote it with the command you just
   posted. I still get 404ed though.
 *  [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
 * (@filosofo)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-i-need-urgent-help/#post-950235)
 * Contact your host and ask if mod_rewrite is installed.

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 * 7 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-i-need-urgent-help/#post-950235)
 * Status: not resolved

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