Title: Permalinks create 404 error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

---

# Permalinks create 404 error

 *  [shvidky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shvidky/)
 * (@shvidky)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-create-404-error/)
 * Hi There,
 * I am pretty new to WordPress, so I am still trying to figure all this out. The
   website works fine, until I change permalinks. Then I get 404 errors.
 * I built a Ubuntu server to host the site. Installed LAMP and WordPress. Yesterday,
   Gary Barret wrote this:
 * > [@shvidky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shvidky/): By 404 errors, I 
   > ment people coming from search engines might be sent to old urls, rather than
   > the new structure. Your problem seems to be related to the .htaccess file in
   > you root.
   > Create a text file called .htaccess with the following code, and upload it 
   > to your root
   >  # BEGIN WordPress
   >  <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /
   > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule./
   > index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress
 * I created .htaccess file in notepad, ftp-ed it to the server to wordpress folder.
   And changed the permissions on the file to 776 using my ftp client. Still, changing
   permalinks causes Page not found errors.
 * Anything else I can try? Thank you very much for your help!

The topic ‘Permalinks create 404 error’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

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

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 0 replies
 * 1 participant
 * Last reply from: [shvidky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shvidky/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-create-404-error/)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics