WordPress is giving me 404 page not found for all pages except the homepage

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All of a sudden I go to my WordPress website and all the pages give me a 404 page not found page  I m assuming the problem lies with the permalink structure  which I could swear I did not touch  The permalink setting is on  month and name    I ve researched similar instances of this problem online and a lot of it has to do with the  htaccess file  I tried finding  but I can t  Perhaps it got deleted somehow  Where is it supposed to be located   Any suggestions will be helpful  and of course I can see hidden files

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We had the same problem and solved it by checking the error.log of our virtual host. We found the following message:

AH00670: Options FollowSymLinks and SymLinksIfOwnerMatch are both off, so the RewriteRule directive is also forbidden due to its similar ability to circumvent directory restrictions : /srv/www/htdocs/wp-intranet/

The solution was to set Options All and AllowOverride All in our virtual host config.

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I just changed the permalink to  month and day of all the posts by ging to setting permalink   Now all posts are open and working fine   Again  I renamed to all posts to its actual permalink  Its again working fine   This method worked for me  -

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Basically the  htaccess file should exists and the httpd conf should be correct   In my case  I changed the file  etc apache2 apache2 conf in section    lt Directory   var www html  gt    Line changed is   AllowOverride None   to  AllowOverride All   And restart the web server with  systemctl restart apache2

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htaccess is a hidden file  so you must set all files as visible in your ftp   I suggest you return your permalink structure to default    p ID   so you ensure that  htaccess is the problem   After that  you could simply set  month and name  structure again  and see if it works   PS  Have you upgraded to 3 1  I ve seen some people with plugin issues in this case

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Check that the directory on  htaccess are the correct Check the fields  siteurl  and  home  are the correct

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Within the WordPress admin interface do the following    Go to admin setting Click on permalink and select post name in radio button  Scroll down and you will see  htaccess code here like    lt IfModule mod rewrite c gt      RewriteRule  index  php  -  L      RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f     RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d     RewriteRule    wordpress index php  L   lt  IfModule gt    Copy the code and paste in the  htaccess file

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For nginx users  Use the following in your conf file for your site  usually  etc nginx sites-available example com   location                     try files  uri  uri   index php q  uri amp  args                  This hands off all permalink requests to index php with a URI string and supplied arguments  Do a systemctl reload nginx to see the changes and your non-homepage links should load

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after 2 long days   the solution was to add options  FollowSymLinks to the top of my  htaccess file

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I had this issue not so long ago  I had reset my permalink to default or just saved it  updated themes core to  4 7 4  plugins  deactivated all plugins  switched to default theme  optimized database   htaccess is already default  checked file permissions  mod rewrite is on   So far nothing works  what works are the posts  new page  the  contact page EXCEPT for old pages   Basically  the pages URLs that aren t working are    breeding  training  training    breeding     Ultimate  I found these files in the root folder    breeding php and  training php  I renamed both files and the pages above worked

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If you have FTP access to your account   First  login to your wp-admin and go to Settings   Permalinks  You should see something at the bottom that says     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    If this is true do the following    Go into preferences for your FTP client and make sure hidden files are displayed  varies depending on your FTP client  - If you don t do this you won t be able to find your htaccess file Go to the folder that your wp-admin  wp-content  wp-includes directories are located  Check for  htaccess file  If it exists skip to step 4 If it does not exist  create a new blank file in your FTP program called  htaccess Change the CHMOD for your  htaccess file to 666  your preference on how you want to do this  Go back to your Permalinks page and edit the link structure you want  Problem should be solved  Make sure to change the chmod of the htaccess file back to 644 after you are done    Just had the same problem and it seemed to fix it instantly  Good luck

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If the default behavior  example com  p 42  is working  you should    Change to your preferred permalink style  Admin  Settings  gt  Permalinks  and click Save  Sometime it fixes the issue  If it didn t  Verify that the file  path to wordpress  htaccess has been changed and now includes the line RewriteEngine On  If it doesn t include the line  it s a Wordpress permissions issue  Verify that the  rewrite  module is loaded  create a PHP file with    lt  php   phpinfo     gt    in it  open it in the browser and search for mod rewrite  It should be in the  Loaded Modules  section  If it s not  enable it - Look at your apache default index html file for details - in Ubuntu  you do it with the helper a2enmod  Verify that apache server is looking at the  htaccess file  open httpd conf - or it s Ubuntu s alternative   etc apache2 apache2 conf  In it  You should have something like   lt Directory  path to wordpress gt    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks   AllowOverride All   Require all granted  lt  Directory gt   After making these changes  don t forget to restart your apache server  sudo service apache2 restart

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Before trying to do any permalink or server config changes  please check you  htaccess file  This mostly is a corrupt or blank  htaccess file issue  Reset the htaccess file to the default    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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This error is causing due to disabled of rewrite mod in apache httpd conf document  just uncomment it and enjoy the seo friendly permalinks

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I have the same problem and so I remove the Apache and make it again and the problem was solved

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You may have  htaccess disallowed in webhost settings  Setting to default permalinks would work in that case

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Case 1 - Let us think if migrate site from one hosting to another hosting if see this kind of issue   Solution - Simply go to old server copy  htaccess file code  then past in new server  htaccess file  99  it i will works

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If your WordPress installation is in a subfolder  ex  https   www example com subfolder  change this line in your WordPress  htaccess  RewriteRule    index php  L    to   RewriteRule    subfolder index php  L    By doing so  you are telling the server to look for WordPress index php in the WordPress folder  ex  https   www example com subfolder  rather than in the  public folder  ex  https   www example com

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Just Navigate to Settings- Permalink in your dashboard and then Save Changes button in the last

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Most of the time this issue is fixed by simply visiting the Settings -  Permalink page in the WordPress admin and click Save  as several other answers already pointed out   When this page is accessed  WordPress rewrites the directives in the  htaccess file which magically fixes the issue  The issue often happens after moving a site  the site breaks because the  htaccess gets left behind or the settings need to be updated    If WordPress doesn t have the right permissions to write the  htaccess file  a notice will appear at the top of the page and further instructions at the bottom when the settings are saved  In this case you need to edit the  htaccess file yourself or  better  to fix the permissions on that file  The file is at the root of the WordPress installation  cd into the directory and sudo chmod 644  htaccess  You might also want to check if the file belongs to the right group and change that is needed with chown  Ask your hosting provider if you don t know how to do that   If you are on shared hosting that s probably all you can do  If you still have the issue you might want to talk to you hosting provider s support  Otherwise  make sure the use of  htaccess files is enabled on the server  as  georgeos already suggested  Note that httpd conf is not always used  Ubuntu indicates it is deprecated but the official Apache docs still says it is often the main configuration file    etc httpd conf httpd conf and  etc apache2 apache2 conf seem to be the most common places for this file  Find the block for the public folder  usually  lt Directory  var www  gt  and make sure that the AllowOverride directive is set to All  If it is set to None  your  htaccess file is simply ignored by the server

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I installed mod rewrite to fix the issue  Below link provides an installation guide -  http   www iasptk com enable-apache-mod rewrite-ubuntu-14-04-lts

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IF all this dont work  your  htaccess is correct  and permalinks trick didnt work  you may have not enabled your apache2 rewite mod    I ran this and my issue was solved    sudo a2enmod rewrite

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Fixing that problem is very simple if you was using permalinks other than the default such as Day and name  Month and name  Numeric  Post name or Custom Structure  you only need to   Login to your admin area  Settings  gt  Permalinks which should be   http   yoursite com wp-admin options-permalink php   Choose Default permalink setting  then save changes  Then you can return it again to your other previous permalink choice or keep it as default as yo wish  Note that this problem can happen when you move your site from a domain or location to another one

[wordpress] WordPress is giving me 404 page not found for all pages except the homepage

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