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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [CGI error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cgi-error-9/)
 *  [uncle-tom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uncle-tom/)
 * (@uncle-tom)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cgi-error-9/#post-1272076)
 * Hi.
 * I have been in touch with my host company and they came back with the answer 
   within 4 hours.
 * **Their answer was** “You are getting that error due to your permalinks settings
   in your WordPress configuration. You sohuld be able to turn these off. Permalinks
   require mod_rewrite which isn’t available on Windows. It is a Linux/Apache function
   only I’m afraid.”
 * When I reset the permalinks to default all was fixed. So if you are on a Windows
   platform then permalink default would **seem **to be your only option.
 * I trawled the help forum and the WP documentation and at no point did I find 
   any reference to platform capabilities. That’s not to say its not there just 
   that I did not find it. In my humble opinion the permalink settings page should
   highlight the options by platform. Just a thought.
 * Now I have it working its a great product.
 * My hosting company is straight up and down and do what a lot of company’s don’t
   which is talk to end users not just techies. They also provide a service which
   in my experience is not that common. They are [pipeten.com](http://www.pipeten.com/)
 * Kind Regards
    Uncle Tom
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [CGI error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cgi-error-9/)
 *  [uncle-tom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uncle-tom/)
 * (@uncle-tom)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cgi-error-9/#post-1272075)
 * This is doing my head in!
 * I am new to wordpress and have just installed wp 2.9.2 and right from the outset
   I am getting “The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete
   set of HTTP headers”
 * I was not to bothered to begin with. I thought that the forum would help me. 
   I have tried several of the suggestions from changing the php version from 5x
   to 4x, removing the ./ or was it the /. from the index.php file and even changing
   the code in wp-db.php file. Nothing worked at all. Anyway I have reinstated it
   back to how it was and started a new cgi error search.
 * The penny then dropped that this error has been around for at least 2 years for
   loads of people.
 * **Can one of the developers please help?** Surely there must be a solution to
   this. I am not an expert in php at all but I am not daft. I am an end user trying
   to use a well praised piece of software. I would like to use it but do not know
   where to look next.
 * Please help
 * Kind Regards
    Uncle Tom

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