"Pretty" Permalinks Not Working

My install of WordPress 2.5 is great; works and everything. But when I select anything other than the default link structure, I get 404 errors on the post pages.

This is what I want to use: /category/postname/

Any help? I’m on Windows XP

Martin

The percentage signs are not showing in what I’d like to use. So it’s like this:

/PERCENT-SIGNcategoryPERCENT-SIGN/PERCENT-SIGNpostnamePERCENT-SIGN/

Hi Martin,

Edit

C:\Program Files\BitNami WordPress Stack\apps\wordpress\conf\wordpress.conf

and change

Options Indexes MultiViews

to

Options Indexes MultiViews +FollowSymLinks

and

AllowOverride None

to

AllowOverride All

Now, restart the web server and it should work. By the way, I noticed that the WordPress version in the latest stack is 2.3.3 (at least on Linux), though it should be 2.5. I’m currently uploading the correct one.

Cheers

Did this solution work ? I am also having trouble getting permalinks to work for pages. I am getting an apache error 404… are there other actions beyond the one suggested above to help resolve – next steps for debug ?

Please help.

Hi Sondogf,

I just did it again and it worked. Can you reproduce your steps here to see if you did something wrong?

Cheers

Just to make sure I am starting clean, I uninstalled wordpress using the bitnami uninstaller (from the programs menu link). I then erased the
c:\program files\bitnami wordpress directory.

I downloaded the bitnami-wordpress-2.5-0-windows-installer.exe from this site. Executed it taking the defaults – other than providing admin username, passwords I then launched wordpress and the default app. worked well. I clicked on the “about” link and the page displayed

I then logged in as admin. When to the settings, permalink page and selected permalink option (Month and name). Save settings. My links now appear in this format. I click on about link from front page (http://localhost/wordpress/about/) and get 404 from apache (The requested URL /wordpress/about/ was not found on this server.) – tried the edit you suggested, restarted webserver (using bitnami stop then start) – same problem.

any ideas ?

Hello, I was able to reproduce the issue and I know what you have to do to fix it :) Edit C:\Program Files\BitNami WordPress Stack\apache2\conf\httpd.conf and change

#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

to

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

and restart the Apache service. Sorry for not noticing it before!

Cheers

np Antonio.. allowing modrewrite to be loaded solved the problem. Thanks for your quick response.