Title: Permalink problem – not being set
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Permalink problem – not being set

 *  [cmoore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cmoore/)
 * (@cmoore)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-not-being-set/)
 * Greetings,
 * I have a problem similar to [this topic](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/75487),
   but can’t seem to find a solution for it.
 * In short, my new WP (2.0.2 via Fantastico install on new domain) is not allowing
   me to set any permalink structure other than the default.
 * Site: grumpasaurus.com
    Server: Apache mod_rewrite: yes
 * The specific behavior is that in the options page, I can select any of the options(
   including custom), click “update permalinks”, with the script reporting “Permalink
   structure updated.” However, after “success”, the selected option is always the
   ugly permalink default.
 * No .htaccess file is being created or written to in that site’s directory. I’ve
   created a blank one with 666 permissions and WP still does not write to it. I’ve
   copied my working .htaccess file from another (largely WP) domain on the same
   server, but still no success and no modification to the file. I have no idea 
   what file WP thinks it is writing to, but wherever it is, it’s not in any directory
   I control.
 * Any help you can provide on this would be most helpful.

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-not-being-set/#post-405297)
 * Is `allow_overrides` on?
 *  Thread Starter [cmoore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cmoore/)
 * (@cmoore)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-not-being-set/#post-405371)
 * yes
 *  Thread Starter [cmoore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cmoore/)
 * (@cmoore)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-not-being-set/#post-405644)
 * I’ve got a pseudo solution:
 * I modified the WP database directly (updated permalink_structure to the format
   I wanted);
    created a .htaccess file that matched those options
 * The site works now as I wanted it to, but I still cannot change the permalink
   structure from within the WP admin interface. If I go to the options-permalink
   page, it now recognizes my permalink choice (second option), but if I try to 
   change anything, the page still reports success but does not actually update 
   the database nor create the .htaccess file.
 * It’s not ideal, but at least it’s working. Anyone have any ideas why this behavior
   would be happening?

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

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [cmoore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cmoore/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-not-being-set/#post-405644)
 * Status: not resolved

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