Wordpress permalink issues?

BlogPro said:

PM me your site URL and admin details and I'll fix it for you.

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Conor said:

"Break" meaning you get a 404 error? Make sure you have mod_rewrite enabled on your server.

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Loadzz said:

I've also tried changing .htaccess to 777 permission, still no luck.

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Loadzz said:

Hello,

I'm having an issue trying to change my sites permalink on my Wordpress website.

Wordpress version: 4.5.2

My current structure is: /%post_id%-%postname%/
I'd like to change it to /%category% /%post_id%-%postname%/ for SEO purposes.

When update my URL structure my previous URL's break - I have rewrite enabled for my .htaccess

What could be the issue breaking my sites URL's?

Any help is appreciated.

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qrazy said:

I recently had the same issue with a new host, where .htaccess file generation was perfect, but somehow custom URLs show 404 errors. The following changes to the config file (/etc/apache2/apache2.conf in my case) solved it for me.

Replace "AllowOverride None" to "AllowOverride All"

My config file would look like this

Code:

<Directory />
  Options FollowSymLinks
  AllowOverride All
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
</Directory>

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<Directory "/">
Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks IncludesNOEXEC Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

BlogPro said:

Wait, let me clarify.

So your current page, for instance is,

http://site.com/432432/post-name

You now want to make it

http://site.com/category/432432-post-name

So when you update the permalinks

http://site.com/432432/post-name doesn't work?

Is that correct?

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Conor said:

Nothing should ever be 777 permission, least of all the htaccess file. That's a huge security hole right there.

Try backing up your htaccess file, deleting its contents and then try saving your permalink settings again.

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