Title: permalinks settings
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# permalinks settings

 *  Resolved [gpowis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gpowis/)
 * (@gpowis)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-settings-1/)
 * I’m trying to change my permalinks settings from default to Postname but when
   I change the settings and then try to access a page on my site I get a ‘This 
   is somewhat embarrassing….’ message. When I change the permalinks setting back
   to default it works again. This is the only setting that seems to work. I tried
   deactivating all the plugins but same problem. Any clues?? Thanks!

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-settings-1/#post-3816247)
 * Is your .htaccess file being suitably modified?
    Have you checked with your hosts
   that mod_rewrite is running on your server?
 *  Thread Starter [gpowis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gpowis/)
 * (@gpowis)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-settings-1/#post-3816328)
 * Thank you for replying. I checked with my host server and they confirmed that
   mod_rewrite is running and the .htaccess file is fine (I’m a WordPress end user
   and I remain clueless as to what these are). They worked out that I had goofed
   on some parent settings in the pages hierarchy. I changed the ‘parent’ setting
   to ‘main page’ on a few pages and now it’s all working perfectly. Thank you again
   for giving me the lead to get there.

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

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 * Last reply from: [gpowis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gpowis/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-settings-1/#post-3816328)
 * Status: resolved

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