Wordpress permalinks not working on WAMP server(404-File not found) ?
Wordpress and WAMPserver are one of the best buddies when you want to write a personal localhost’ed blog. Recently, when I installed wordpress and chose to use ‘pretty permalinks’, all I got is Error 404-File not found. i checked the .htaccess file if the changes have been written to it. Yes, the changes were made to it and yet it won’t work.
The silly mistake I was making all the time was trying it with mod_rewrite disabled. Having used XAMPP in the past-which has mod_rewrite enabled by default, I had no idea that for WAMPserver, it would be turned off by default. So the simple fix is to enable mod_rewrite. To enable it, follow the below steps:
Click on the WAMPserver tray icon>Apache>Apache modules> Scroll down the list of available modules and clcik on ‘rewrite_module‘. The Apache server would be restarted automatically and you can now use the pretty permalinks.
I’ve been struggling with permalink issues for days, trawling through the Wordpress support forums with no luck. Then I thought that maybe it was something to do with Wampserver. Your page was the first Google hit. Thanks for the post!! All working perfectly now.
i was stuck with the same prob as Justin
very useful
thanks a lot
Thank you very much.
As Justin S. said, you were the first page on Google for this.
Thank you!
Brilliant, thank you! I love simple solutions.
Thank you so much!!!! I use yahoo search engine and it took me a long time to find your page! Your instruction works well for me! Since today, I’ll use Google search engine instead!
Thank you!
Sweetness. Thanks! I’m still new at the server thing so I had no ideas at all.
Wow, wamp sure is cool. I just ran circles trying to remember where Apache was installed. I still have 2 installations. I’m waiting on another PC to before I attempt clean up this PC.
It’s my bad habit of right clicking for context menus.
Yeah thanks, was working on setting up a local Wordpress and WAMP and was having the same problem. Thanks again.
Have used WAMP for over a year… and only today, I considered tunring on pretty permalinks. Thanks!
Thanks a million!
Thank you!!!!!!!!
wow that was easy. i probably spent 4 hours the other day trying to figure this one out. then i came back and put “wordpress permalink wamp” into google and your solution (first result) fixed it immediately.
Many thanks for taking the time to write this down for us!!!
Worked a treat.
Thanks for the fix! Appreciate the time you took to write it.
I had just discovered this problem, and I couldn’t find anything on the Wordpress documentation site. Thanks to a Google search, I found this great page with its straight and simple solution. Problem solved!
Thanks for helping us all out!
Awesome solution! Just what I was looking for, and super easy. I was only finding solutions for XAMP and not WAMP – Thanks again!
thanks, very helpfull…
Many thanks. Loaded the latest wampserver on a new PC and permalinks didn’t work. It’s probably been 3 years since I installed it on my previous PC and went through this. It’s in my notes now!
Thank you SO much for this solution. I felt like I was bashing my head against a wall – could not figure out what was wrong because… everything was right! Except for rewrite off. You rule!
Thanks! Spot on and fixed the issue.
Thanks so much!
Thank you man! I reinstalled WAMP and was struggling really bad with this untill I found your page from google.
Kudos!