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Wordpress permalinks not working in Xampp/localhost server once migrated from Internet

I have an issue: I have migrated my Wordpress site from my web hosting on my system and imported in htdocs in Xampp.

The main site page is working, but when I try to access any link (permalinks) from there I got a 404 error even if I have imported and modified correctly the MySQL DB for localhost environment.

What's happening? How to fix that?

Usually this kind of scenario happens when the .htaccess is present (and it needs to be present) but not modified for the new local path.

For example, if your project is located on:

E:/xampp/htdocs/my-site-backup/

Then you need to specify the path starting from the localhost.

E:/xampp/htdocs/ === localhost === /

To fix permalinks you will just need to change RewriteBase and RewriteRule in the .htaccess. If the following is the first version:

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

The following will be the new version (for localhost):

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /my-site-backup/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /my-site-backup/index.php [L]

# END WordPress

Once the .htaccess will be updated, you will need only a page refresh (no Apache restart in Xampp is needed).