Hmm…hovering on your categories give the following:
http://metaltiger.org/?cat= and nothing else. Have you set up the permalinks structure in your htaccess file?
http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Using_Permalinks might help you.
Thanks. I will look at this.
Well, I have been playing around with the Permalink thing trying to set it to /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
When I go to update the .htaccess with the additional stuff starting with the:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
ect…….
I get a Object not found Error 404 message.
So the question is, when I update the htaccess file, do I overwrite it or just add to it. I made sure there were not any blank spaces also. Hmmmmm. Interesting this is all so new to me. What do you think there Moose?
I tried changing the permissions on the server to 666 for the htaccess file and reloading the new Permalink structure hoping that WordPress could update the file but no luck so I changed the permissions back to where it was.
I need help with the Permalink thing and updating the htaccess correctly. Thanks
Try this:
1. Navigate your browser to Options/Permalinks.
2. Delete the .htaccess file via FTP.
3. Set your new permalinks as:
/archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
4. .htaccess should have been automatically created and everything should be working perfectly.
Hey, thanks macmanx. It works. Very cool.
I used the instructions here and still no category or permalinks; I kept getting 404 errors with the permalink paths – the server was trying to find the actual path and it wasn’t getting changed by mod_rewrite. Then I realized: mod_rewrite can’t do its job in the directory!
I had the proper .htaccess file with all the rules in place and it still didn’t work.
Then I remembered about overrides!
Note that you may have to add (or ask your host to add) httpd.conf overrides.
These worked for me:
<Directory /path/to/wordpress>
AllowOverride Options FileInfo
</Directory>
Big thanks for that AllowOverride tip, sophistry! I struggled too long with that last night without success but with your example and an updated “Options … SymLinksIfOwnerMatch” directive I finally got it working on my Mac OS X system.
Original directives:
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Updated directives:
Options Indexes MultiViews SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
AllowOverride FileInfo Options
sophistry’s post was spot-on. Thanks!
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