Title: Permalinks and 404 Errors
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Permalinks and 404 Errors

 *  [RChicken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rchicken/)
 * (@rchicken)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-and-404-errors-1/)
 * Where do I begin?
 * On Friday, in an attempt to enhance my SEO, I STUPIDLY changed my permalink setting
   from “default” to “month/day”
 * Then, suddenly, all of my Linkwithin links/Networked blog links etc are throwing
   404 errors. I tried to change it back. No luck.
 * I tried turning off all plugins. No luck.
 * I had my host company do a 24 hour restore. No luck.
 * The host company tried to help, but claim it’s a wordpress/htaccess problem and
   they don’t support that.
 * I’ve tried to play with my htaccess file, but really don’t know what I’m doing.
   Or where it should be. Or what it should have in it.
 * If I have the permalink setting set to default, I get a white screen/black text
   404 error. If I have the permalink setting set to month/day, I get my “personalized”
   404 page (for an example, click here: [http://www.rubberchickenmadness.com/2011/02/groundhog-day-lindsay-lohan.html](http://www.rubberchickenmadness.com/2011/02/groundhog-day-lindsay-lohan.html))
 * I have been through the forums over and over. If I really knew what I was doing,
   I might be able to make more sense of it.
 * At this point, I’m scared of making things WORSE by doing things wrong.
 * Can anyone help me, in plain English?
 * I really would be eternally grateful. I’ve put a lot of work into my blog and
   want to keep it going.

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 * [404 errors](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/404-errors/)
 * [permalinks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalinks/)

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 * Last reply from: [RChicken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rchicken/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-and-404-errors-1/)
 * Status: not resolved

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