WordPress: posts_per_page in archive.php causing 404 error

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I’m trying to control the number of posts listed by the archive.php template using the following query_posts function before the loop: 

<?php query_posts('posts_per_page=1'); ?>
<?php <?php  if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

This query_posts setup doesn’t work in archive.php the same way it does for index.php: it will in fact display one post, but clicking on previous posts points me to the 404 error template.

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I’ve looked elsewhere on the web and on StackOverflow for solutions, but have not been able to find a anything that works. I’ve also tried the following without success: 

<?php global $query_string; query_posts($query_string . '&posts_per_page=1&paged=' . $paged); ?>

and 

<?php global $query_string; query_posts($query_string . '&posts_per_page=1'); ?>
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  1. 1) Login as the admin in WordPress.

    2)Go to the Settings tab.

    3)Go to the Reading tab.
    4)Change the Blog pages show at most from the default 10 to any number *less than 10.
    For example, 5.

    5)Save the changes.

    View the blog.

    edit the number to less than 10, hope it helps you out. It fixed mine.

    while debugging i found out that default posts per page option should be less than any custom posts_per_page in query_posts function. That’s all. Weird, but that’s the fact.