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Mar 8, 2006
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WordPress Permalinks Does Not Work in xampp Setup

xampp provides a convenient way to quickly and easily install and setup a web server that works without much configuration. However, permalinks feature won’t work with the default installation of xampp, even though you can properly customize the permalinks structure to create the .htaccess file.

When you click on any permalinks, your WordPress blog will return a 404 error instead, saying the post not found. Instead, you can only access your blog posts via default permalinks structure, which is in the form of http://www.mydigitallife.info/?p=123.

This is because in xampp, mod_rewrite is not enable by default. Beside, AllowOverride directive in Apache configuration file is also set to None by default, causing Apache web server to ignore any .htaccess file, which used to rewrite the permalinks to the post’s actual url.

To use permalinks in WordPress that installed on xampp-based server, edit the httpd.conf that locates in C:\Program Files\xampp\apache\conf directory (folder). Open httpd.conf in any text editor, search for “mod_rewrite”. You should come to a line like this:

#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Remove the hash sign (#) from the line. The # indicates the line is not in effect. The changed line should looks like this:

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

After that, search for “AllowOverride”. You will come to a line like this:

AllowOverride None

If the above line is contained within default directory (mean the directory declaration is just ), then it can be left as it is. Continue searching and you would come to a second instance of AllowOverride which is contained inside your web server’s document root (default for xampp is in Windows). Change the None to All to make the line looks like this:

AllowOverride All

Restart the Apache. Permalinks is working after restart.

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49 Comments

  • iPage Training January 2, 2012 at 7:22 am

    Thought I couldn’t find any solution to this problem on easyPHP. But this is truly what I am looking for just a couple of days now. thanks to you!

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  • Harley April 4, 2011 at 3:00 pm

    did not work for me, had to set permalinks back to default wp 3.1, xammp portable lite 1.7.3

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  • Alexander February 15, 2011 at 12:20 pm

    was very helpful for me. Thanks a lot. ModeRewrite was already on in my local xampp – but the AllowOverride was it! Thanks!

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  • Ben August 27, 2010 at 12:20 am

    Thank You…I was having problem with EasyPHP + wordpress… it's ok now

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  • Mike April 4, 2010 at 11:12 am

    THANKS! I had this same problem with EasyPHP on a Windows platform. Thank you for the clear explanation.

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  • Kennard January 18, 2010 at 8:19 pm

    Thanks a lot! u help me so much..!!

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  • richo November 19, 2009 at 1:14 am

    Wonderful I had no idea about Allowoverride is default None for my vhost. When adding it to my vhost Directory directive all is working fine

    Thanks a lot!

    -r-

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  • Sean July 14, 2009 at 9:06 am

    Thanks,

    Love it when someone knows what they are talking about. Perfect solution!

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  • microbia June 2, 2009 at 7:53 am

    Thanks for the tip! You saved my bacon!

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  • atsil April 17, 2009 at 3:35 pm

    perfect solution. thanx a lot!!

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  • Webmist February 17, 2009 at 7:56 pm

    Hey I just found this -Wordpress site was working fine online but couldnt get it to show pages on Xampp – your advice was spot on!

    Many thanks for sharing your expertise!

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  • SriMathe February 12, 2009 at 6:03 am

    I don

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  • Romeo February 6, 2009 at 12:56 am

    Thanks a mill you just saved me stress, a headaiche and some serious painkillers

    But I made all my AllowOverride(s) for it to work and now it's tip-top.

    Sharp

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  • Konc3pto November 27, 2008 at 2:22 pm

    Thank you so much for this quick help!!!

    Sure made my day!!!

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  • FattIntek November 20, 2008 at 5:11 am

    Reason why is great to be a gay :P

    You can say anything ("Wow, do my balls hurt!") and not worry about what people will think. It was joke :D

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  • sam October 31, 2008 at 7:54 am

    thanks for the quick fix.

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  • Icon October 24, 2008 at 10:18 pm

    I was experiencing the same problem and your post has saved my day. Thanks ! :D

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  • Tom Bones October 20, 2008 at 10:11 pm

    Thanks for that! Was wondering why that wouldn't work..

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  • TechPuree October 10, 2008 at 9:09 pm

    Was facing the same problem with XAMPP in my local installation. Googled for the solution and thankfully came across your post. Nice and useful write-up. Great!!

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  • Keir October 8, 2008 at 7:32 pm

    Awesome post, worked a dream – many thanks!
    Worth noting the same issue is apparent with installations of Joomla! on xampp.

    PS don’t forget to save the file once you’ve edited (speaking from experience – 1 too many 7ups!)

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  • HydroMan September 27, 2008 at 7:10 pm

    I had a similar problem with a LAMP server, issue was due to symlinks not being enabled.

    Simply went to vhosts/vhost.conf and added allow all statement..

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  • Arhtur August 15, 2008 at 4:59 am

    Thanks A LOT! Works great!

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  • Phil McThomas August 4, 2008 at 5:27 pm

    Just adding my thanks – I'm trying to get CodeIgniter to work: same issue, same solution.

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  • Brett July 13, 2008 at 2:43 pm

    Thanks!! You just saved me!

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  • Rob Thunder July 3, 2008 at 9:59 am

    Gee thanks! I'm not even using XAMPP but rather have a home development server set up by installing everything separately (e.g. Apache, PHP, Perl, MySQL, etc.) Everything on my WordPress blog installation was working great except Permalinks. Got WordPress to change the links in the HTML but clicking on the links kept yielding 'page not found' errors. Your fix worked great.

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  • siloco June 27, 2008 at 2:44 am

    Gracias por la información.

    Me ha ido genial.

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  • Medianero June 26, 2008 at 5:23 am

    Muy buen post.

    Lo he enlazado en mi blog, donde añado algo de información:
    http://siloco.es/2008/06/problema-con-permalinks-…
    Un saludo

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  • Johannes June 21, 2008 at 8:27 am

    Excellent!

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  • islet8 June 13, 2008 at 11:37 pm

    It works! Thank you very much!

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  • Jeff May 2, 2008 at 1:34 pm

    Man, I have been trying to figure this out for almost 3 hours.

    I was trying to write a custom htacess on a highly hacked up wordpress core, snd i thought the problem was with some little detail in the syntax of the file.

    This makes alot more sense now.

    THanks a ton.

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  • ElectroGeek April 24, 2008 at 8:31 am

    Pure genius. This worked liked a charm. This resolved all my permalink issues with WordPress 2.5 on Xampp. The date and name permalink structure works great now. Thanks again!

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  • g.zhen.ning April 14, 2008 at 3:39 am

    好东西，正准备装wordpress来测试theme

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  • Adriano March 4, 2008 at 3:05 am

    i just followed your instructions but it doesn't work, it returns me a server error.

    The htaccess is written by wordpress so i think it's without errors.

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  • ncho October 20, 2007 at 6:45 am

    thanks for this — i thought i was losing my mind…could not, for the life of me, figure out why my permalinks weren't working…now i know!

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  • lwean October 13, 2007 at 10:57 pm

    thanks for the advice!

    I am also trying to experiment xampp this time…

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  • Zack June 15, 2007 at 8:15 pm

    Is this not working for anyone. For whatever reason, it's still not working for me… I feel like I've tried everything.

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  • Aero June 10, 2007 at 3:56 pm

    Thanks for the advice. Now my htaccess files work as they should!

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  • Jereme Guenther March 14, 2007 at 7:09 pm

    Thanks, this was wonderful information. A quick and easy fix, simple to follow but not so many details that I needed to dig through it for information.

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  • Kisakookoo January 24, 2007 at 11:00 am

    Hi! Why I can't fill my info in profile? Can somebody help me?

    My login is Kisakookoo!

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  • Vizualbod January 22, 2007 at 11:56 am

    Thank you mate,

    you have just saved me few hours of struggling.

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  • dex_stern December 22, 2006 at 1:31 pm

    Thank you a lot! You've just save me from getting insane! :)

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  • Av- May 29, 2006 at 10:29 am

    Thanks, worked great!

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  • Av- May 29, 2006 at 10:28 am

    Thanks, worked great. :)

    http://www.google.nl/search?hl=en&q=xampp+hta…

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  • CesarS April 1, 2006 at 9:41 am

    thanks ! great advice :)

    Reply

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