Title: Permalinks Problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Permalinks Problem

 *  Resolved [amulet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amulet/)
 * (@amulet)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-problem-1-2-2/)
 * I recently posted about some errors I kept getting via email, saying things like,“
   A user tried to go to (URL) and received a 404 (page not found) error. It wasn’t
   their fault, so try fixing it. They came from (URL).” I found out it has to do
   with the permalinks somehow. I want to use the Custom option and have the /%category%/%
   postname%/ after my domain ([http://www.sassydevil.com/](http://www.sassydevil.com/)),
   but I keep getting these errors whenever I set it like that, and I even tried
   leaving off the beginning and end slashes, by themselves and together, putting“
   index.php” before the configuration, etc.
 * Is there anything I can do to be able to use this permalink option? Thank you.

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 *  [Lori Berkowitz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bmonster99/)
 * (@bmonster99)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-problem-1-2-2/#post-549968)
 * If you set the permalink options in your admin section, was your .htaccess file
   writable? If not, you have to copy the code and insert it there yourself. If 
   you already did that, are you sure your server has the mod_rewrite module installed?
   If all of that is fine, then i will have to think on it some more. good luck 
   🙂
 *  Thread Starter [amulet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amulet/)
 * (@amulet)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-problem-1-2-2/#post-550050)
 * I didn’t have it writable, but I made it so, and reset the permalink structure,
   and it still sent me the errors. I’ve confirmed that my server has the mod_rewrite
   module installed. I’ve used previous versions of WordPress with this custom structure,
   so I don’t know why it’s changed now.
 * Here’s what’s in my .htaccess file:
 * # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond%{
   REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.
   php [L] </IfModule>
 * # END WordPress
 *  Thread Starter [amulet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amulet/)
 * (@amulet)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-problem-1-2-2/#post-550051)
 * Oh, yeah, and the posts do show up with the correct structure, despite my getting
   the errors by email.
 *  Thread Starter [amulet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amulet/)
 * (@amulet)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-problem-1-2-2/#post-550136)
 * **PROBLEM SOLVED!!!**
 * I’m posting what solved the problem for me, for anyone else who might experience
   it. It was, indeed, a plugin. I think I forgot to update the permalink structure
   the first time I tried going through the plugins, and didn’t discover it. Anyway,
   the one that caused the problems was Jerome’s Keywords v1.9. I found an edit 
   on a blog (not for the problem I was having, but errors with permalinks, nevertheless),
   and it didn’t work, so I’ve deleted the plugin entirely. If anyone has this problem
   in the future, and you don’t have Jerome’s Keywords (if you do, try deactivating
   it and see if that stops the problem), deactivate all your plugins and reactivate
   them, one by one, and update the permalink structure after each one. When you
   find the error, you’ll know which plugin(s) caused the problem. If you find one
   is a problem, deactivate it, but keep trying the rest, just in case there are
   others.

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 * Last reply from: [amulet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amulet/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-problem-1-2-2/#post-550136)
 * Status: resolved

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