Title: Permalink / mod_rewrite issues
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Permalink / mod_rewrite issues

 *  [ronrapp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ronrapp/)
 * (@ronrapp)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-mod_rewrite-issues/)
 * I’m having a bit of a problem getting my WordPress 2.1 install to recognize the
   date based permalinks.
    The site in question is at [http://stage.rapp.org/](http://stage.rapp.org/)
   You’ll notice the categorical archive links work fine. The monthly archives, 
   however, do not work. I’ve read various messages here on the support forum about
   folks with internal server errors and such. I’m not having that problem. WordPress
   works fine, it just says “Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.” Here is my .
   htaccess file: RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^archives/(.*)/(feed
   |rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /wp-feed.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA] RewriteRule
   ^archives/?(.*) /index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA] RewriteRule ^archives/author/(.*)/(
   feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /wp-feed.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA] RewriteRule
   ^archives/author/?(.*) /index.php?author_name=$1 [QSA] RewriteRule ^archives/([
   0-9]{4})?/?([0-9]{1,2})?/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?([0-9]+)?/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum
   =$2&name=$3&page=$4 [QSA] RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([_0-
   9a-z-]+)?/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /wp-feed.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&name=$
   3&feed=$4 [QSA] RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([_0-9a-z-]+)?/
   trackback/?$ /wp-trackback.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&name=$3 [QSA] RewriteRule 
   ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /wp-feed.php?feed=$1 [QSA] RewriteRule ^comments/feed/?([
   _0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /wp-feed.php?feed=$1&withcomments=1 [QSA] My template tag permalink
   is: /archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ and my categories permalink is set
   to : /archives

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 *  [thomasmaas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomasmaas/)
 * (@thomasmaas)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-mod_rewrite-issues/#post-56772)
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/3/5624](http://wordpress.org/support/3/5624)
 *  Thread Starter [ronrapp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ronrapp/)
 * (@ronrapp)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-mod_rewrite-issues/#post-56811)
 * I tried every suggestion in that thread before posting my message.
    When I remove/
   archives/ from the permalink path, it works. But why is that? And more importantly,
   how can it be fixed? Since /archives/ is listed in the example given in the control
   panel, I assume it has to work somehow. 🙂 Thanks, –Ron
 *  [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * (@carthik)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-mod_rewrite-issues/#post-56814)
 * Change
    `RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})?/?([0-9]{1,2})?/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?([0-
   9]+)?/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&name=$3&page=$4 [QSA]  to \` RewriteRule
   ^archives/([0-9]{4})?/?([0-9]{1,2})?/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?([0-9]+)?/?$ /index.php?
   year=$1&monthnum=$2&name=$3&page=$4 [QSA]
 *  Thread Starter [ronrapp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ronrapp/)
 * (@ronrapp)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-mod_rewrite-issues/#post-56820)
 * 2fargon,
    I made the change as you suggested. Still no dice.
 *  Thread Starter [ronrapp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ronrapp/)
 * (@ronrapp)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-mod_rewrite-issues/#post-56821)
 * If you visit
    [http://stage.rapp.org/archives/2004/02/](http://stage.rapp.org/archives/2004/02/)
   you’ll see it shows “no messages met the criteria”. But if you add in “index.
   php” to the URL, like this: [http://stage.rapp.org/index.php/archives/2004/02/](http://stage.rapp.org/index.php/archives/2004/02/)
   Then it works. ???
 *  Thread Starter [ronrapp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ronrapp/)
 * (@ronrapp)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-mod_rewrite-issues/#post-57133)
 * Thank you, Thomas! Yours was the only suggestion that worked.
    I guess the .htaccess
   file generated by WordPress is no good, at least for my ISP’s setup (I’m with
   Dreamhost.com). Could I bug you for a little more help on one thing? In my old
   Movable Type setup, the postname in the URLs used underscores instead of dashes.
   How would I go about either a) using underscores in WP or b) having a mod_rewrite
   rule so the old URLs would be forwarded to the new URL?
 *  [thomasmaas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomasmaas/)
 * (@thomasmaas)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-mod_rewrite-issues/#post-57195)
 * Has nothing to do with your isp. Has everything to do with having same startfolder
   of the URI for your categories and your permalinks: “archives”.
    underscores:
   don’t forget that google prefers dashes [http://wordpress.org/support/4/6172](http://wordpress.org/support/4/6172)
   gives basically 2 solutions 1 > plugin to create underscores 2 > use external
   mod rewrite to guide visitors to new URI with dashes (imho preferable) good luck

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 7 replies
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 * Last reply from: [thomasmaas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomasmaas/)
 * Last activity: [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-mod_rewrite-issues/#post-57195)
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