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How to make WordPress Permalinks work in Localhost

Submitted by techronnati on Thursday, 19 March 200914 Comments

The other day i was playing around on my local WordPress installation when this error message appeared on my screen saying…

Not Found

The requested URL /Techronnati/wordpress/ibm-db2-cognos-tivoli-websphere-microsoft-google.html was not found on this server.

I was surprised. As a matter of fact, i was not expecting that to happen. Now you may probably ask, what the heck i was doing all along? You see, I was playing around on my wordpress’ permalinks structure, pretty much learning about Search Engine Optimization in the WordPress CMS. And so without much idea, i delved in and tried to investigate one by one that’s causing this error. Later on, i found out that WAMP or any other similar localhost webservers that can be run from a local computer do not have mod_rewrite enabled by default. I also discovered that the AllowOverride directive is set to none by default WAMP server installation, causing Apache to ignore an .htaccess file. If this is the case, your WordPress installation might return a 404 error, stating post not found and you would only be able to access your posts via a default permalink structure. I.E. http://localhost/yourwebsitefolder/?p=2. Collecting some information i got, here’s what i did.

Using a text editor, open your httpd.conf file. In WAMP server, this file can be found in the \apache\conf directory
Sift for the following line of code in that file.

#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
Next, remove the # from the line as seen below to enable the module: Just for information, # symbol is actually a comment syntax for httpd.conf. So this should look like this.

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
Then, search for AllowOverride in this httpd.conf file until you come to a line similar of the following:

<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride none
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Directory>
Verify if AllowOverride All is indicated. Change “none” to “all” if found otherwise so this should look like this.

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

Save the httpd.conf file and Restart your wamp server. (Click on the ‘moon’ in the icon tray and select Restart Services)
Login to your WordPress admin panel and set your custom permalink structure as desired. Then go view your site. Custom permalinks should now work on your localhost WAMP/XAMPP or other server.

Happy Blogging everyone.

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14 Comments »

Iyal Carmen said:

Thank you. It has been a very frustrating experience not knowing what to do. Hours wasted. The rewrite_module was commented out. Glad to tell you that your articled helpmed me.

- 27 November 2009 at 8:59 am

techronnati (author) said:

Wow, thanks Iyal for the sweet gesture. =) I am glad you are able to resolve your problem. =)

- 27 November 2009 at 9:44 am

Scott said:

Excellent! I was wondering what the problem was and now I know. Thanks for this tip – all sorted now.

- 7 May 2010 at 12:14 pm

Ben said:

Thanks mate. This worked a treat.

- 8 May 2010 at 9:53 pm

techronnati (author) said:

Good to know mate… ;D Enjoy blogging.. ;D

- 8 May 2010 at 10:08 pm

huseyin ertok said:

Definetly it is working thanks a lot , ı can solve my problem with this informaiton.

- 7 November 2010 at 7:46 am

Saroj said:

Cool, no pain at all , Everything works fine for me on Wamp server 2.0
http://localhost/wordpress/2010/12/08/hello-world/

Thanks
Saroj´s last blog ..Free Web Business Icons

- 8 December 2010 at 6:49 pm

Steven said:

Thank you so much! I spent several hours already trying to solve this problem. This post was God send. Fixed my problem right away. You are a saint!

Thanks

- 26 January 2011 at 12:11 am

arnold said:

thanks mate, I was about to pull my hair about this problem , thanks

- 18 May 2011 at 11:49 am

Mark Shingleton said:

Very handy. Just set this up for a client
Much appreciated.

- 25 August 2011 at 12:19 pm

Nick said:

Good stuff man great for fixing my issue with wamp pretty permalinks error, not working, broken. Hope the little key word stuff gets you some traffic thanks for the help it was great to go from problem to solution so easy.

- 20 October 2011 at 1:19 pm

Lac said:

AWESOME! A half day long worked on it to find what the heck is the problem. Thanks Man!

- 25 October 2011 at 2:51 am

Han said:

Thanks very much for this, solved my problem straight away!

- 6 November 2011 at 1:31 am

satish said:

Sorry to say about your post i have tried your process but it is not working.But i get some good knowledge.Can you please help me to slove my problem.Thank you in advance

- 23 January 2012 at 5:11 pm

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