Title: Permalinks problem with .htaccess :(
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Permalinks problem with .htaccess :(

 *  [ratulupadhyay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ratulupadhyay/)
 * (@ratulupadhyay)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-problem-with-htaccess/)
 * My website [http://vigaversa.co.cc](http://vigaversa.co.cc) runs very well.
 * But I got to know that this link does not open from external places and gives
   error 403.
 * My htaccess file looks like this
 *     ```
       Options Indexes
       Options +FollowSymlinks
       # BEGIN WordPress
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
       RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
       </IfModule>
   
       # END WordPress
       ```
   
 * When I change RewriteEngine On to Off, the message disappears, but then every
   page within the site shows Error 404 File Not Found. Please help me 🙁

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 *  [linrakesh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/linrakesh/)
 * (@linrakesh)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-problem-with-htaccess/#post-1870014)
 * The about shows this error message because you have change permalink as something
   else not it’s default. the about .HTACCESS file thus is not able to rewrite the
   default link thus giving you the about error. If you do not wan to use default
   permalink then you have change REwriteEngine ON. Also make it very sute this 
   file must be writable.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [linrakesh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/linrakesh/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-problem-with-htaccess/#post-1870014)
 * Status: not resolved

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