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.
Justin Slack
9 Nov 08 at 12:10 am
i was stuck with the same prob as Justin
very useful
thanks a lot
Sergio de la Garza
19 Dec 08 at 4:00 pm