WordPress is giving me 404 page not found for all pages except the homepage

Question

All of a sudden I go to my WordPress website and all the pages give me a 404 page not found page. I\'m assuming the problem lies with the permalink structure, which I could swea

Answer 1

If the default behavior (example.com/?p=42) is working, you should:

• Change to your preferred permalink style: Admin: Settings > Permalinks, and click Save. Sometime it fixes the issue. If it didn't:
• Verify that the file /path/to/wordpress/.htaccess has been changed and now includes the line RewriteEngine On. If it doesn't include the line, it's a Wordpress permissions issue.

• Verify that the 'rewrite' module is loaded: create a PHP file with

  in it, open it in the browser and search for mod_rewrite. It should be in the 'Loaded Modules' section. If it's not, enable it - Look at your apache default index.html file for details - in Ubuntu, you do it with the helper a2enmod.

• Verify that apache server is looking at the .htaccess file. open httpd.conf - or it's Ubuntu's alternative, /etc/apache2/apache2.conf. In it, You should have something like

  
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
  
  

• After making these changes, don't forget to restart your apache server. sudo service apache2 restart