Title: Permalinks argghhh!!!!
Last modified: September 26, 2018

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# Permalinks argghhh!!!!

 *  Resolved [swoolrich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swoolrich/)
 * (@swoolrich)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-argghhh/)
 * I’ve not give a link to the page as it’s not yet online.
 * I have a wordpress.com site I want to repatriate to my web server, which is Debian/
   Apache2 / MariaDB.
 * I exported the site from wordpress.com using the built-in tool.
 * I created a new site on my web server, created it’s database and installed WordPress.
   
   Then I imported the wordpress.com website.
 * It worked but I wanted the ‘Name’ permalinks, so I changed it in settings, and
   got a 404 for anything other than the home page. If I go back to the default 
   all is well.
 * There is NO problem rewriting .htaccess, and mod_rewrite is loaded.
 * I’m stumped.
 * Can only think I need to start again, resetting the permalinks first.

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-argghhh/#post-10726423)
 * > I have a wordpress.com site
 * You are at the wordpress.org forums.
 * Is your site wordpress.com blog.
 * If not, then I’m assuing it’s a self-hosted site.
 * >  If I go back to the default all is well.
 * If that works, then try reading [Using_Permalinks ](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)
   before setting a custom permalink structure again. If clearing your Permalinks
   does not alleviate the issue, this could be attributed to anything from a web
   server configuration to a bad WordPress install.
 *  Thread Starter [swoolrich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swoolrich/)
 * (@swoolrich)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-argghhh/#post-10727917)
 * Found I needed to add the following to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:
 * # Added for Pretty Permalinks
    <Directory /var/www/html/xxx/wordpress> Options
   Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All </Directory>
 * All seems fine now.
 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-argghhh/#post-10729895)
 * Glad to know it 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-argghhh/#post-10729895)
 * Status: resolved

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