How to change permalinks under WAMP.

and mod rewrite is on.

Makes me wonder if that is true?

If you want to use permalinks, you will need to make a change inside another file:
Click the Start button, followed by My Computer > Main drive > Xampplite > apache > Conf and find the file httpd.conf. Open that in a text editor. Use the search facility in the editor to find “rewrite”. The line you need looks like this:

#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

You need to take away the hash sign so it looks like this

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Now just save the file.

ref
https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/

Thanks for the replies guys. Sadly they didn’t help.

As already stated, mod-rewrite is both enabled and on, and I am using WAMP One click installer not XAMPP (same line in http.conf).

This is the virtual host definition.

<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName  chocolate.leda.hcs
   ServerAdmin ian@deleted
   DocumentRoot "D:\GitRepositories\Carrie"
	RewriteEngine On
	<Directory "D:\GitRepositories\Carrie">
		Options Indexes
		Order allow,deny
		Allow from all
	</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

The .htaccess file is

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Every page except the Home” page gives me a reply such as

The requested URL /about/ was not found on this server.

Unless I have the default permalink set. Then things work correctly.

So what is going wrong? Ideas anyone?

Ian

p.s. I have removed and re-installed wordpress from a fresh download, just to remove the possibility of a corruption.

honestly I have never got wamp to work right out of the box
xampp on the other hand works every time
sorry not more help

What happens if you rename your .htaccess file?

Thanks samboll, this works fine for me on clean install of WAMPserver 2.0 on Windows XP (running standalone on localhost).

In WAMP you need to turn on the rewrite_module. To do this click on the WAMP icon in your task bar and navigate to: Apache>Apache modules> Scroll down to rewrite_module and click it. Once you do this your pages should work immediately.

I ever face that problem and my solution :

Find these lines (in httpd.conf) :

#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

remove # sign

and this line

<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Directory>

change into this :

<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride FileInfo Options
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Directory>

Save and Restart apache followed by retest your permalink.

( I take it from my blog post that utilize xampp but I think it’s not different in wamp).

@room339

Thanks! That worked perfectly.

@room339 – Your solution was perfect and within seconds the permalinks were prettier than a sunrise in the mountains ??

Wamp with wordpress installed locally looks great. No more FTP(ing) yourself senseless!

@room339 Thank you!! it works great ??