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I'm on Ubuntu and using LAMP for local dev. I've several WordPress installations for different project and tried to set custom permalinks on all of them, but only default permalink setting ( http://localhost/wpinstalation/?p=123 ) works, other settings are giving 404 error. Any idea how can I fix this?

George

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I had the same problem. It sounds like you don't have rewrites turned on in your installation.

Find your httpd.conf file, find the following line:

#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

And remove the # at the beginning so it looks like this:

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Save and then restart the service. Custom Permalinks should now work. There might be an easier way but I'm not familiar with Linux

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Thanks Manny but mod_rewrite wasn't installed. This answer solved my problem: askubuntu.com/questions/48362/… – Mamaduka Jul 31 '11 at 7:51
oh, thanks! I thought that other answer did the job for you, though. – Manny Fleurmond Aug 16 '11 at 20:15
yes, but from that answer I just got tips for mod_rewrite :) – Mamaduka Aug 16 '11 at 21:40

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