The requested URL about was not found on this server

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The home page of my wordpress website seems to be displaying correctly but if you click through to any of the other pages I get the following error message   Not Found  The requested URL  about was not found on this server   Apache 2 Server at www wildlionmedia co uk Port 80   I m not sure whether it s a problem with the theme or the  htaccess file that is not being rewritten correctly    http   www wildlionmedia co uk   Any ideas how I can resolve the issue     Switch rewrite engine off in case this was installed under HostPay  RewriteEngine On  SetEnv DEFAULT PHP VERSION 53  DirectoryIndex index cgi index php    BEGIN WordPress  lt IfModule mod rewrite c gt  RewriteEngine Off RewriteBase  wildlionmedia co uk  RewriteRule  index  php  -  L  RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d RewriteRule    wildlionmedia co uk index php  L   lt  IfModule gt     END WordPress

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It worked for me like this   Go to Wordpress Admin Dashboard      Settings         Permalinks         Common settings     set the radio button to    Custom Structure    and paste into the text box    index php  year   monthnum   day   postname     and click the Save button

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FWIW  I rebuilt a LAMP server from scratch and installed WordPress   I had the same issue after saving my Permalink setting to generate the  htaccess file   Turns out that mod rewrite was not enabled   I ran across this post on Digital Ocean  FTA      First  we need to activate mod rewrite  It   s available but not enabled with a clean Apache 2 installation      sudo a2enmod rewrite      This will activate the module or alert you that the module is already enabled  To put these changes into effect  restart Apache      sudo systemctl restart apache2

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On my MacOS Catalina machine I discovered that an additional file had been created at  etc apache2 users my-username conf where the default was AllowOverride none  Changing that to All finally got things working for me  The challenge with Mac is that its hard to get to these directories with Finder so its easy not to spot this file

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It worked for me like this    Go to Wordpress Admin Dashboard      Settings         Permalinks         Common settings     set the radio button to    Custom Structure    and paste into the text box    index php  year   monthnum   day   postname     and click the Save button   I got this solution from this link

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I deleted the previous  htaccess file and created new one by clicking on save button in Settings- Permalinks  and now that pages started working fine

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There is a trusted answer on the Wordpress website      Where s my  htaccess file       WordPress s index php and  htaccess files should be together in the   directory indicated by the Site address  URL  setting on your General   Options page  Since the name of the file begins with a dot  the file   may not be visible through an FTP client unless you change the   preferences of the FTP tool to show all files  including the hidden   files  Some hosts  e g  Godaddy  may not show or allow you to edit    htaccess if you install WordPress through the Godaddy Hosting   Connection installation       Creating and editing   htaccess       If you do not already have a  htaccess file  create one  If you have   shell or ssh access to the server  a simple touch  htaccess command   will create the file  If you are using FTP to transfer files  create a   file on your local computer  call it 1 htaccess  upload it to the root   of your WordPress folder  and then rename it to  htaccess       You can edit the  htaccess file by FTP  shell  or  possibly  your   host s control panel       The following permalink rewrite code should be included in your    htaccess file  since WordPress 3 0       BEGIN WordPress  lt IfModule mod rewrite c gt  RewriteEngine On RewriteBase   RewriteRule  index  php  -  L  RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d RewriteRule    index php  L   lt  IfModule gt    END WordPress    Taken from here

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If all above point not work  Then try this one  I tried it  It s working for me    Go  etc httpd conf httpd conf   Change the AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All  Restart the apache server     UPDATE 2017   For new versions of apache the file is called apache2 conf  So to access the file  type sudo nano  etc apache2 apache2 conf and change the correspondent line inside block  lt Directory  var www  gt

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I got the same issue  My home page can be accessed but the article just not found on the server   Go to cpanel file manager  gt  public html and delete  htaccess   Then go to permalink setting in WordPress  set the permalink to whatever you want  then save  viola everything back to normal   This issue occurred after I updated WordPress

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Make sure mode rewrite is enabled in APACHE settings  See link here https   github com h5bp server-configs-apache wiki How-to-enable-Apache-modules  Then make sure you have correct  htaccess  https   wordpress org support topic 404-errors-with-permalinks-set-to-postname   And correct virtual host settings in either Apache settings  How to Set AllowOverride all

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Here is another version for Wordpress  original one did not work as intended     BEGIN WordPress  lt IfModule mod rewrite c gt      RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule  index  php  -  END      RewriteCond  1   index  php     OR      RewriteCond  1    gif jpg png ico css js    NC OR      RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME  -f  OR      RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME  -d     RewriteRule        -  END      RewriteRule    index php  L   lt  IfModule gt    END WordPress   Reference from this Github repository  modified a bit  After excessive testing this rule does not solve all problems  We have a Wordpress webshop  which has 40 plugins and somewhere is there a rewrite clash  I sincerely hope next version of Wordpress has no URL rewrites     RewriteRule  index  php  -  L      The   signifies start of the string    escapes   or it would mean any character  and   signifies end of the string    index  php  if http s    hostname index php - do nothing  END  flag can be used to terminate not only the current round of rewrite processing but prevent any subsequent rewrite processing     RewriteCond  1   index  php     OR      In RewriteCond using  1 as a test string references to captured contents of everything from the start to the end of the url http s    hostname bla bla php  If used in substitution or condition it references to captured backreference  RewriteRule  bla   ble  php   - for http s    hostname bla ble php captures bla into  1 and ble php into  2  Multiple capture groups can be accessed via  3  N       groups several characters into single unit    forces the match optional   OR  flag allows you to combine rewrite conditions with a logical OR relationship as opposed to the default AND   In short  if bla bla php contains index php OR next condition     RewriteCond  1    gif jpg png ico css js    NC OR        groups several characters into single unit    separates characters to subgroups and conditions them if any one of   NC  flag causes the RewriteRule to be matched in case-insensitive manner   In short  if bla bla php ends with any of the filetypes OR next condition    RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME  -f  OR    Server-Variables are variables of the form    NAME OF VARIABLE   where NAME OF VARIABLE can be a string taken from the following list       REQUEST FILENAME  is full local filesystem path to the file or script matching the request  if this has already been determined by the server at the time REQUEST FILENAME is referenced  Otherwise  such as when used in virtual host context  the same value as REQUEST URI  Depending on the value of AcceptPathInfo  the server may have only used some leading components of the REQUEST URI to map the request to a file   -f check for regular file  Treats the test string as pathname and tests whether or not it exists   In short  if bla bla php is a file OR next condition    RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME  -d   -d check for directory  Treats the test string as a pathname and tests whether or not it exists   In short  if bla bla php is a directory    RewriteRule        -  END  not as in Github  S 1    This statement is only executed when one of the condition returned true     match any character   zero or more times   The  S  flag is used to skip rules that you don t want to run  The syntax of the skip flag is  S N   where N signifies the number of rules to skip  provided the RewriteRule matches   This can be thought of as a goto statement in your rewrite ruleset  In the following example  we only want to run the RewriteRule if the requested URI doesn t correspond with an actual file   In short  do nothing    RewriteRule    index php  L    The  L  flag causes mod rewrite to stop processing the rule set  In most contexts  this means that if the rule matches  no further rules will be processed  This corresponds to the last command in Perl  or the break command in C  Use this flag to indicate that the current rule should be applied immediately without considering further rules   In short  rewrite every path as http s    hostname index php    I fetched this little doc together from apaches org documentation  Links below    Apache mod rewrite Introduction Apache Module mod rewrite Apache mod rewrite RewriteRule Flags

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Solved Permalink Issue Wordpress      1  Login to wordpress dashboard   click on settings   premalinks   then select post name   2  After that login to your hosting server goto  htaccess file and replace the code    lt IfModule mod rewrite c gt  RewriteEngine On RewriteBase   RewriteRule  index  php  -  L  RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d RewriteRule    index php  L   lt  IfModule gt

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Although solution to this problem is hardly coded in regeneration of your  htaccess file  indeed it din t worked for most of you specially when the site is migrated to some new server   Let s dive into some basics   Let s assume that for most of us  WordPress environment is running on a PHP server APACHE where this server is controlling most of our environment s initial dependencies  Meanwhile  htaccess generation is also mainly dependent on Apache configurations   So if that been said  the contribution of  htaccess creation conflict mainly occurs when a WordPress website is migrated from a server running the WordPress environment on old version of Apache and PHP to a newer version of PHP and Apache   Because dependencies of nrwer and older versions are different that s why the newer version of Apache2 won t allow the  htaccess directives to create a  htaccess file by default  because of which we have to manually set the WordPress website s root directory permissions from  AllowOverride None  to  AllowOverride All    Comparatively  AllowOverride directive is used to allow the use of  htaccess within the web server to allow overriding of the Apache config on a per directory basis   Use the following fix to change the apache2 conf directory permission settings   How to deal with GCP WordPress error  quot This page isn   t working example com is currently unable to handle this request  HTTP ERROR 500

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I used http   jafty com blog enable-mod rewrite-on-apache-ec2-linux-server  to determine that after upgrading to PHP 5 6  from 4 9 13  it also update the http  Apache  and I needed to edit the  etc httpd conf httpd conf file  I quote         Basically  you   ll be adding All insted of None to AllowOverride  you   do not want to edit the main directory configuration  you want to edit   the one that looks like this     lt Directory     var www html    gt    Not    lt Directory   gt    Then restart Apache with   sudo service httpd restart  NOTE - in my tiredness I did change a different Directory element and it made no difference  so ensure you do it for  var www html  The article also explains how to check mod-rewrite is enabled

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I am working on MacOS  following operation solved my problem   I copied from   https   akrabat com setting-up-php-mysql-on-os-x-10-7-lion   cd  etc apache2  Give write permission the config file to root  sudo chmod u w httpd conf sudo vim httpd conf  Find  LoadModule php5 module libexec apache2 libphp5 so   and remove the leading    Find  LoadModule rewrite module libexec apache2 mod rewrite so  and remove the leading    Find AllowOverride None within the section and change to AllowOverride All so that  htaccess files will work   Change permissions back  sudo chmod u-w httpd conf  Restart Apache by running following in terminal   sudo apachectl restart

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change only  htaccess     BEGIN WordPress  lt IfModule mod rewrite c gt  RewriteEngine On RewriteBase   RewriteRule  index  php  -  L  RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d RewriteRule    index php  L   lt  IfModule gt    END WordPress

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I found a very simple solution   Go to Permalink Settings Use Plain for URL Press Save button  Now  all pages URLs in WordPress should work perfectly  You can return the URL to the previous setting and the WordPress will re-generate the URL correctly  I choose Post name in my case and it works fine

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That s not a typical Wordpress rewrite block  This is     BEGIN WordPress  lt IfModule mod rewrite c gt  RewriteEngine On RewriteBase   RewriteRule  index  php  -  L  RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d RewriteRule    index php  L   lt  IfModule gt    END WordPress   See http   codex wordpress org Using Permalinks Where 27s my  htaccess file 3F     Where s my  htaccess file  WordPress s index php and  htaccess files   should be together in the directory indicated by the Site address    URL  setting on your General Options page  Since the name of the file   begins with a dot  the file may not be visible through an FTP client   unless you change the preferences of the FTP tool to show all files    including the hidden files  Some hosts  e g  Godaddy  may not show or   allow you to edit  htaccess if you install WordPress through the   Godaddy Hosting Connection installation       Creating and editing   htaccess  If you do not already have a    htaccess file  create one  If you have shell or ssh access to the   server  a simple touch  htaccess command will create the file  If you   are using FTP to transfer files  create a file on your local computer    call it 1 htaccess  upload it to the root of your WordPress folder    and then rename it to  htaccess       You can edit the  htaccess file by FTP  shell  or  possibly  your   host s control panel    The easiest and fastest thing to do it reset your permalinks in Dashboard  Settings  Permalinks and make sure  htaccess is writable so WordPress can write the rules itself   And  are you aware you are calling index cgi as your default document rather than index php  That s wrong  Remove index cgi  Or try removing the whole line  too  because defining a default doc on your server may not be needed

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Hie    Although late If anybody suffering from the similar issues here is what you can do to allow permalinks by modifying your virtual host file or whereever you are hosting your WP sites    So basically everything works fine - you set up permalinks to post and suddenly the url dissapears  You went to a lot of disscussion forums  Like me  tried a lot of modifying and got  Permission to server 403  errors or URL not found error  All you have to do is go to the host file  for example 000-default conf if using a default virtual host or your config file inside sites-enabled    use in the directory section     lt Directory  path to dir  gt  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Require all granted  lt  Directory gt    Donot use the following inside directory  Order allow deny Allow from all   The Order and Allow directives are deprecated in Apache 2 4   Likewise you can setup the directory in  etc apache2 apache2 conf set the directory for your path and donot use the above - this will cause permission 403 error    In addition to that you will need to enable mod rewrite for apache

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The selected answer didn t solve this issue for me  So for those still scratching their head over this one  I found another solution   In my Apache settings httpd conf you can find the conf file by running apachectl -V in your console   enabled the following module   LoadModule rewrite module modules mod rewrite so  And now the site works as expected

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in setting   permalinks wordpress set simple and test again

[wordpress] The requested URL /about was not found on this server

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