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I've changed my permalinks to a custom one. When I saw my contact page was sitting on [domain]/index.php/contact instead of [domain]/contact this isn't isolated to /contact however. I went and deleted the index.php in the custom string. This came up with of course [domain]/index.php/contact redirecting to [domain]/contact. However this came up with a 404 error page doesn't exist.

I went and checked and the .htaccess file did not exist so I enabled htaccess and created the file with vim empty then changed the permissions with chmod to 644 as stated the Wordpress Codex. Went and re-saved the permalinks to discover I still had a 404 error, this is when I noticed that WordPress still thought the .htaccess file was not writable.

I went and copied the .htaccess file text WordPress wanted me to manually add to the .htaccess file manually. To my anger, still producing a 404 error.

Does anyone know what could be causing this? I've never had this issue before. What is happening?

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    Does your server meet the requirements for pretty permalinks - Apache web server with the mod_rewrite module installed, FollowSymLinks option enabled, FileInfo directives allowed?
    – Milo
    Commented Aug 9, 2018 at 2:50
  • .htaccess files or mod_rewrite might not be enabled on your server... 1. Try putting any nonsense at the top of your .htaccess file - do you get an error? (You should get a 500 Internal Server Error.) 2. Try removing the <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> wrapper - do you get an error?
    – MrWhite
    Commented Aug 9, 2018 at 8:03
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    @MrWhite I do have it enabled. Getting a 500 error when I write garbage.
    – Liam O'Luachra
    Commented Aug 9, 2018 at 8:36
  • What about No.2 - remove the <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> wrapper? Or include RewriteEngine On at the top of the .htaccess file, above the <IfModule> wrapper?
    – MrWhite
    Commented Aug 9, 2018 at 8:54
  • @MrWhite Tried it, still get a internal error.
    – Liam O'Luachra
    Commented Aug 9, 2018 at 9:10

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...remove the <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> wrapper? Or include RewriteEngine On at the top of the .htaccess file, above the <IfModule> wrapper?
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@MrWhite Tried it, still get a internal error.

That indicates that you don't have mod_rewrite installed on your server or you are not permitted to use mod_rewrite in .htaccess files (see the AllowOverride directives for the later) - that will explain why the permalinks are not working.

With the <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> wrapper in place then the directives are simply not processed when mod_rewrite is not installed. It fails silently.

See the following StackOverflow question regarding enabling this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/869092/how-to-enable-mod-rewrite-for-apache-2-2

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