404 error after changing permalinks wordpress

Question

My site is a Wordpress-site created with PHP.

I have made changes in permalink default to postname. It works fine in Chrome and <

Answer 1

I had the same issue locally, I tried everything above. After a while I realised how the vhost is setup for the application the .htaccess is not enabled.

    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All

    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all

Adding these lines, helped me a lot and resolved my issue.