Understanding Permalinks

  • lzweigle

    (@lzweigle)


    18 years, 1 month ago

    I have created a virtual host on my computer using WAMP. I downloaded my live site along with the data files. When I logged into my local site, the homepage loaded. Great! However, when I went to browse other pages on the site I got the HTTP404 not found page. I then went to my admin area, opened the options panel and went to Permalinks. I changed the setting from custom to name and date. I updated and returned to the site. I then was able to open other pages on the site, however the url said mysite.com/index.php/page. I don’t understand why this works and my custom links (mysite.com/page) did not load. I am looking for a way to make this work. Perhaps my local WAMP is not configured to accept custom links, whereas my host (hostmysite.com) is. Any ideas?

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  • Thread Starter lzweigle

    (@lzweigle)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    Well, since I last sent a post I have, by some stroke of luck, been able to solve my permalink issue. I went into Wamp control panel, selected Apache modules and scrolled to a module called rewrite module. I selected (activited it), restarted my service and then went into the wordpress admin panel and reselected name and date under permalinks. After updating, I tested the site and all the links work as expected, without the index.php in the url. Hopefully this will be helpful to someone else.

    Chris_K

    (@handysolo)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    Yup, without mod_rewrite, the best you can do is “almost pretty” permalinks.

    Hopefully, that’s mentioned at the Using_Permalinks page in the codex.

    Thanks for updating your issue 🙂

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