Can’t use Pretty Permalinks

What is RewriteRule . /news/index.php [L] for?

I don’t know it’s something I saw in the forum.

Take that out in case it’s causing a problem.

A suggestion is to let WordPress handle the rewrites. All you have to do is add a .htaccess file (if you don’t already have one) to the root directory and chmod it to 777 (so that WordPress can edit it). After WordPress has made the changes I would chmod it back to it’s original state via an FTP program or SSH (if you have root access).

When I changed the permission to 777 in my ftp and saved it wordpress changed the file to this

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

But I still get error 404

Do you know if mod_rewrite is enabled on your server, and what is the permalink structure that you’re trying to set?

I don’t know if mod_rewrite is enabled, how can I check that? The structure I’m trying to set is /%postname%

Try using one of the preset permalinks first. If they work, then it’s your custom structure that’s at fault.If they don’t work, then mod_rewrite may not be installed and you’ll need to speak to your hosts.

They work only the custom doesn’t work

Try this (note the trailing slash at the end):

/%postname%/

Doesn’t work, strangely the about page works maybe because it was installed with wordpress?

Can you share a link to this blog? I’d like to see what’s happening.

Sure the site is https://www.funbuy.co.il/ the pages that don’t work are how to buy? and faq

I’m going to guess that they aren’t working because of the non-western characters in the page slug. Try changing the page slugs to “how-to-buy” and “faq” .

Thank you for all the help. It was the slugs I changed it and now it works.