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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Permalinks 404 error .htaccess writable](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-404-error-htaccess-writable/)
 *  [wardlr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wardlr/)
 * (@wardlr)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-404-error-htaccess-writable/#post-2657253)
 * Setting “AllowOverride” to “All” and uncommenting it should fix it. Setting it
   to none or disabling it causes Apache to completely ignore it. I also (just incase)
   set “AccessFileName .htaccess” too under the VirtualHost settings, but I think
   in general it’ll work without this.
 * Oh also: If Apache doesn’t start back up after making that change, as above, 
   you’ll need to enable mod_rewrite. Dive back in to your httpd.conf file, PageDown
   a couple of times until you hit the cloud of lines starting “LoadModule” and 
   uncomment:
 * `LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so`
 * You might need to change the last bit to whichever directory contains your modules,
   and it’s reletive to whatever you set “ServerRoot” is set to.
 * Other OSes might require you to do a “a2enmod mod_rewrite”; I think Debian needs
   this, and possibly Ubuntu.

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