• Hi everyone!

    I was trying to enable pretty permalinks on a blog the other day but I ran into this problem.

    I am getting a 404 page not found error.

    The requested URL (permalink structure) was not found on this server.

    The links get rewritten, however the post isn’t there, just a white page with the error.

    Yes I do have the plugins and everything enabled and yes I have successfully enabled permalinks in other wordpress installations

    Anyone have any insight into this?

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  • the standard reply:
    make sure you’re on a linux server

    deactivating all plugins
    if a plugin is borked this will let you log in

    if this doesn’t help, deactivate your theme and activate default theme

    if neither of those work

    1. Try adding this line to your wp-config.php file:
    define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');
    
    2. If you have access to your PHP.ini file, change the line in PHP.ini
    If your line shows 32M try 64M:
    memory_limit = 64M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (64MB)
    
    3. If you don't have access to PHP.ini try adding this to an .htaccess file:
    php_value memory_limit 64M
    
    4. Talk to your host.

    Sometimes you have to go to the permalinks options page and press ok and then WordPress will start using it. If not, then the above advice is key.

    That happened to me once when I added a plugin.

    Thread Starter mynamenotbob

    (@mynamenotbob)

    I tried the fixes and none of them worked :'(

    I made a new wordpress install and was able to get it working on a different server with all of the plugins and the theme active.

    I guess all that is left is maybe doing a reinstall of wordpress, and if that fails I’ll have to ask the host to check things out again. They said everything was fine on their end >_>

    I use ssh instead of an ftp, however that probably wouldn’t make a difference right?

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