Title: setting permalink return 404
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# setting permalink return 404

 *  [umair](https://wordpress.org/support/users/umair/)
 * (@umair)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-permalink-return-404/)
 * i am trying to change permalinks to /stuff/%category%/%postname%/ and category
   slug to /stuff
 * but when i do this all posts start to return 404 error ? (category runs fine 
   and other permalink structure also works for posts)
    what should i do ?

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 *  Thread Starter [umair](https://wordpress.org/support/users/umair/)
 * (@umair)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-permalink-return-404/#post-565763)
 * is it because i am including stuff in both of them ?
 * because i have also tried to change the word “stuff”.
    but when ever i use same
   word both in the start of permalink and as a category slug … posts start returning
   404
 *  Thread Starter [umair](https://wordpress.org/support/users/umair/)
 * (@umair)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-permalink-return-404/#post-565897)
 * any one have any idea whats going on ?
 *  Thread Starter [umair](https://wordpress.org/support/users/umair/)
 * (@umair)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-permalink-return-404/#post-565917)
 * 🙁
 *  [niuserre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niuserre/)
 * (@niuserre)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-permalink-return-404/#post-565918)
 * I have the same problem. I’m 90% certain it requires a change to be made to the.
   htaccess file to allow for mod_rewrite to change the permalink structure.
 *  [niuserre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niuserre/)
 * (@niuserre)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-permalink-return-404/#post-565919)
 * It wasn’t .htaccess…
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Structure_Tags](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Structure_Tags)
 * This suggests that similarities such as your stuff instance could cause 404s.
   I added in %post_id% and got mine working.

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 * Last activity: [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-permalink-return-404/#post-565919)
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