Are you using permalinks and is mod_rewrite enabled on your web server?
I’m new to this and I don’t think I’m using permalinks and I don’t know if mod_rewrite is enabled or how to enable it. Is this something that can easily be done or do I have to do some reading? This is getting terribly frustrating.
thanks,
~peter
Reading about Permalinks:
http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Using_Permalinks
If you don’t have mod_rewrite enabled – read Section 4.
OK, I read about permalinks. I don’t really need permalinks. It seems like they are not used by default. Correct? Do I still need to enable mod_rewrite? All I want is a very simple blog, just postings and comments, very basic.
I cannot find the .htaccess file. Could this be the problem? It says to change permissions on this file but it’s not there. How do know if mod_rewrite is enabled?
thanks
I talked again to my service provider and they say the mod_rewrite is enabled. do I still need to create a .htaccess file? If so how do I do that?
With a plain text editor create an empty file named .htaccess and upload it to the root directory of your blog. Chmod 666 (temporarily!)
Go your your Options > Permalinks panel and enter the desired nice permalink structure in the fileds. At the bottom right click Update Options. You should be done.
Change the permissions on your .htaccess file.
OK, I added the .htaccess and modified the permalinks structure (to this /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/). Now all the links go to the URL from this structure but there is nothing there, I get:
“Not Found
The requested URL /blog/2005/07/07/tester/ was not found on this server.”
Is there something else I need to do?
thanks.
