Wordpress 404 page not found for all pages except the home page

Paula

I saw a strange behaviour on my client website. I get the 404 page not found error on all the pages except the homepage. This is the issue that first time I see on Wordpress site and this drive me crazy from last 4 hours. It would be great if someone help me to resolve this.

Jacob

Can you please check and make sure the .htaccess file is exists on the root directory of your wordpress installation. You can find the .htaccess file at PATH_TO_WORDPRESS/.htaccess. This kind of 404 issue occur on the missing of the .htaccess file.

morgan

If you don't have cPanel or the FTP details then follow these steps to prevent the 404 page not found issue.

Go to the WordPress Admin dashboard
Navigate the Settings -> Permalinks
Select the Post Name radio button
Click on the Save Changes button.

The above steps will automatically generates a .htaccess file for you that take cares of your website URL's.

James

Make sure that the server has apache rewrite module enabled. To ensure about this, you need to create a php file at there root directory of your wordpress site and lets give it a name site_info.php. Now open the site_info.php file and add the paste the following codes:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Now save it and open in the browser like https://example.com/site_info.php and find the word mod_rewrite. If it is not enabled and you have the SSH with root permission then you can enable it by using the following command.

sudo a2enmod rewrite

And then restart the apache server with sudo service apache2 restart command.