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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [404-error on permalinks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-on-permalinks-1/)
 *  [ratwareuk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ratwareuk/)
 * (@ratwareuk)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-on-permalinks-1/page/2/#post-1184804)
 * Hello to everyone with a Permalinks issue reading this post.
 * I thought I’d reply as I went through everything listed in this thread and from
   other sources yesterday trying to fix the 404 error with the new version of WordPress.
   I edited .htaccess, enabled mod_rewrite.. etc etc But no joy! In my particular
   case, it 404’d when viewing a “complex” permalink I’d just posted or when trying
   to create a new post containing one.
 * Eventually, I started looking at my mod_security logs and it would seem that /
   wp-admin/post.php was being blocked by my own server as it was reading the request
   as a possible SQL injection.
 * I have white listed the /wp-admin/post.php URI from mod_security and bingo, issue
   resolved.
 * Hope this helps.
 * Regards,
 * Matt Buck
    Principal Engineer [RatwareUK](http://www.ratwareuk.com) [RatwareUK Blog](http://www.ratwareuk.com/blog)

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