Title: Problem with Permalinks
Last modified: August 31, 2016
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# Problem with Permalinks
* [danyru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danyru/)
* (@danyru)
* [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-permalinks-44/)
* Hi,
* Right now I’m really stuck. I’ve successfully installed locally wordpress and
a theme from themeforest and I’ve added some new pages and portfolios. Website
is almost completed except, I just can’t get the permalinks to work. I’ve saved
to default then resaved back to postname but it won’t work…
* My set up is Mac OSX Yosemite 10.10.5 with MAMP 3.4
* I read somewhere in the forum that it is necessary to modify the .htaccess file,
but I can’t find it nowhere O.o I know it may sound extremely stupid, but I am
new at this and I am going crazy….
* Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks, Dany
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* [Josh Robbs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwrobbs/)
* (@jwrobbs)
* [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-permalinks-44/#post-7361412)
* The .htaccess file will be in the root folder of your website. It is hidden by
default.
* [http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/how-show-hidden-files-in-mac-os-x-finder-funter-3520878/](http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/how-show-hidden-files-in-mac-os-x-finder-funter-3520878/)
* [jackjohn52](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackjohn52/)
* (@jackjohn52)
* [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-permalinks-44/#post-7361426)
* Do you have any plugins installed? tried disabling them? .htacess is hidden so
make sure you have activated “show hidden folders icon” on your machine.
* Thread Starter [danyru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danyru/)
* (@danyru)
* [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-permalinks-44/#post-7361430)
* Hi! Thanks for your answers 🙂
I tried to disable and re-activate the plugins,
but with unsuccessfully. Nothing has changed… I’ve found the .htaccess thanks
to Josh’s link. The content is:
* # BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On **RewriteBase /wordpress/**
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond%{
REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d **RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]** #
END WordPress
* which is similar to what expected according to the WP documentation that I found
here: [https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks](https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)
I suppose the difference between the expected file and mine, depend on the fact
that I have this path: MAMP\htdocs\wordpress
* # BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule
^index\.php$ – [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-
d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] # END WordPress
* Any idea?
Thanks again for your help… Dany
* _[ [No bumping please](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#No_Bumping). ]_
* [Josh Robbs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwrobbs/)
* (@jwrobbs)
* [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-permalinks-44/#post-7361525)
* What is happening?
* You can get to the home page but get 404 errors when you go to other pages?
* Have you tried renaming it and letting WP recreate it?
* Thread Starter [danyru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danyru/)
* (@danyru)
* [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-permalinks-44/#post-7361530)
* yes, I can get to the home page but get 404 errors when I go to other pages except
portfolio items, that are visible. I get 404 errors even clicking on preview
button from backend.
* And yes, I tried to rename the page, duplicate the page and add a new page, but
I always get 404 error page.
* Until now, I have checked the htaccess file and it seems ok to me.
I have also
changed “AllowOverride None” to “AllowOverride All” in httppd.conf, but nothing
changed. I have checked if the line “LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.
so” was ok and I suppose it is, and then tried to uncomment all of the required
lines but honestly I didn’t really know what I was doing. So I abandoned this
idea and now I was thinking of uninstalling wordpress and mamp and try to do
a fresh installation…I cannot understand where I am going wrong. ::shock::
* Thread Starter [danyru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danyru/)
* (@danyru)
* [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-permalinks-44/#post-7361599)
* Hi,
* I have somehow solved the problem! 🙂
Here are my actions: I changed “AllowOverride
None” to “AllowOverride All” in httpd.conf I have renamed the file “envars” in“
_envars” I deactivated all the plugins. At this point the pages were visible,
so I have re-activated all the plugins one by one and now it works 🙂 and canceled
the useless plugins.
* Thank you all for your support!
Dany
* Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
* (@jdembowski)
* Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
* [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-permalinks-44/#post-7361600)
* > I changed “AllowOverride None” to “AllowOverride All” in httpd.conf
* That will fix it almost every time. 😉
* [zoooj4real](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoooj4real/)
* (@zoooj4real)
* [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-permalinks-44/#post-7361670)
* Just spent quite a while trying to sort this out but didn’t do the basics and
check whether LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so was enabled.
* Looks like it’s disabled by default in Max OS X Yosemite in /etc/apache2/httpd.
conf so definitely worth checking this first! The other change needed was AllowOverride
All in the Document section.
* Hope this helps.
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