Permalinks not working

[xpromgr]

Hope you can help me. None of my page links are working. URLs are good, but the link leads to a 404 page.

I selected “Post name” for my permalink settings.

The permalink settings indicate:
“If your .htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so these are the mod_rewrite rules you should have in your .htaccess file. Click in the field and press CTRL + a to select all.”

My wp-content folder is writable, but I can’t locate the .htaccess file on my server. Is there a workaround for this?

[xpromgr]

That’s ok. I had to work with my managed hosting service to locate and enter the script onto the .htaccess file.

This is now resolved.

[jaberize]

Hi,

Can you please provide more guidance on a detailed procedure for changing the htaccess file?

I cant seem to find anything in the documentation on changing the htaccess file!

Thanks,

[thosch71]

Hi jaberize,

I also had to alter the htaccess-file….

this is what it should look like to make pretty permalinks work (at least that’s how it worked for me 😉 ):

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Hope this helps,

thosch

[Melanie – SUPPORT]

Thanks thosch!