Title: Setting permalinks doesn’t work
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Setting permalinks doesn’t work

 *  Resolved [poloair](https://wordpress.org/support/users/poloair/)
 * (@poloair)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-permalinks-doesnt-work/)
 * My WP v2.1 is installed at [http://asmindo.cartool.info/blog/](http://asmindo.cartool.info/blog/),
   blog is also at this direcory. Other settings are as follows:
    – create a blank.
   htaccess at <b>[http://asmindo.cartool.info/blog/.htaccess</b&gt](http://asmindo.cartool.info/blog/.htaccess</b&gt);–
   CHMOD this .htaccess to 777 – CHMOD /blog/ directory also to 777
 * When trying to setting permalinks, the followings happened:
    – Select “Date and
   name based” and click “Update Permalink Structure” – It then said “Permalink 
   structure updated.” – But, nothing happened to the .htaccess file; it remains
   blank – Also, no display of recommended .htacess entries – All articles remain
   in WP’s default ugly URLs – When tried the “Custom Structure” option, the text
   area for it refused me to type any enties into it (doesn’t accept any input into
   it!)
 * Last attempt was changing the .htaccess with the following entries:
 *     ```
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
       RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
       </IfModule>
       ```
   
 * Still, permalinks doesn’t work at all.
 * Did I do anything wrong?
    Do I need a permalink plugin for making it works? Any
   suggestions will be higly appreciated. Thank you.

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-permalinks-doesnt-work/#post-523264)
 * _– CHMOD /blog/ directory also to 777_
 * Change that back to 755 as soon as possible, before somebody hacks your blog!
   You’ll never need that!
 * Ask you host if the mod_rewrite and Allow Override is enabled on the server. 
   If not, the “nice” permalinks don’t work.
 *  Thread Starter [poloair](https://wordpress.org/support/users/poloair/)
 * (@poloair)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-permalinks-doesnt-work/#post-523411)
 * Thanks, moshu; I did already.
 * As with mod_rewrite and Allow Override features:
    under the same domain (at root
   and at other directories as well), I have several .htaccess that work well for
   URL rewriting purposes. For example, their entries contains:
 *     ```
       Options +FollowSymlinks
       RewriteEngine on
       RewriteRule ^index.html$ Books/Keywords-search-Mailing+List+Guide-salesrank-1.html
       RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)-search-(.*)-(.*)-(.*).html index.php?Operation=ItemSearch&SearchIndex=$1&$2=$3&Sort=$4&ItemPage=$5 [QSA,L]
       ```
   
 * Doesn’t this explain that mod_rewrite and Allow Override is enabled on my server?
   
   PS: I have a multi domain account on the server and, .htaccess rewrite rule works
   on all domains and subdomains. Pls advise me if I’m wrong :-).
 * PS: I can’t add tags to this posting, don’t know why.
 *  Thread Starter [poloair](https://wordpress.org/support/users/poloair/)
 * (@poloair)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-permalinks-doesnt-work/#post-523412)
 * Ups, sorry; just able to adding tags.
 *  Thread Starter [poloair](https://wordpress.org/support/users/poloair/)
 * (@poloair)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-permalinks-doesnt-work/#post-523413)
 * Additional info on the problem, perhaps these mean something?:
    – After selecting
   3rd option “Date and name based”, clicking “Update Permalink Structure”, and “
   Permalink structure updated”, the selected button always back to the Default 
   option. – I use WP v2.1 package that is available in the hosting package, and
   installed using Fantastico. – The same problem also happens when I installed 
   WP v2.1 on another hosting service (different server!).
 * Guys, please help.
 *  Thread Starter [poloair](https://wordpress.org/support/users/poloair/)
 * (@poloair)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-permalinks-doesnt-work/#post-523511)
 * Problem resolved already. It is just because I use an old Opera version, it can’t
   process javascript correctly.

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

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [poloair](https://wordpress.org/support/users/poloair/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-permalinks-doesnt-work/#post-523511)
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