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Lucas Santos
Lucas Santos
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One missing step on Migrating from Local to Live Server.

Just a quick heads up for who ever runs into this problem but there is one small thing that Zac forgot to mention on the "Migrating from Local to Live Server" video and that is the last step.

The last thing you should do is:

Login the WP admin of the new site and go to Settings > Permalinks and click "Save Changes" so an .htaccess file with the permalink structure is created on the new server.

I just ran into this problem because I had changed my permalink in local development to postname, when I had everything set up properly nothing else worked but the index.php.

http://mywebsite.com/about was "not found" and every other page until I just went into the permalink settings and just clicked "Save Changes'