Title: Please help solving PERMALINK issue!
Last modified: August 18, 2016
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# Please help solving PERMALINK issue!
* Resolved [ralfrottmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ralfrottmann/)
* (@ralfrottmann)
* [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-solving-permalink-issue/)
* Hi there,
I have been going through almost all permalink related posts across
various forums. However I have not been able to resolve my problem nor to nail
it down somehow.
* I am running WordPress 2.0. Updating has been a charm. Permalinks for me never
worked. Not under 1.5.2 nor under 2.0.
* Here are some steps I have undertaken:
* – I have a .htaccess file.
– The file can be edited programmatically (permissions).
If I add rules maunally via the admin panel’s file editor, they are successfully
saved end executed. – If I add rewrite rules to .htaccess manually, they work.
This is a clear sign than mod_rewrite works fine on my server.
* However, if I activate permalinks, nothing is added to the .hatccess file. The
links in my blog are updates (so they point to ../archives/1, ../archives/2 etc.)
but if I click them they lead to nowhere.
* So basically the main issue seems to be that WordPress does *not* update the .
htaccess file and does *not* add any rules to it.
* Can anybody help tracking this down?
* Regards
Ralf
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* [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
* (@filosofo)
* [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-solving-permalink-issue/#post-308553)
* 1. Have you set the file permissions of .htaccess so that all can write to it?(
i.e. something like CHMOD 777)
2. Under Options > Permalinks in the admin control
panel, have you selected something other than “default”?
* Thread Starter [ralfrottmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ralfrottmann/)
* (@ralfrottmann)
* [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-solving-permalink-issue/#post-308563)
* Yes. Both.
The file can be fully accessed. As I have stated in my initial post:
WordPress’ built-in file editor can successfully edit the .htaccess file. A clear
indication that the 777 access rights work fine.
* Non of the settings in Options > Permalinks work.
* Any idea?
* [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
* (@filosofo)
* [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-solving-permalink-issue/#post-308566)
* WP 2.0 basically puts the same .htaccess rules for everybody, doing most of the
rewrite rules internally. So, if you can edit the .htaccess file with the file
editor, just put the standard WP 2.0 stuff in there (adjusting if you have WP
in a different directory than the top-level one):
`# BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-
f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php
* # END WordPress
* Thread Starter [ralfrottmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ralfrottmann/)
* (@ralfrottmann)
* [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-solving-permalink-issue/#post-308569)
* Thanks again for helping. Unfortunately it still does not work. My WordPress
2.0 is in the blog subdir. So I changed .htaccess to:
* # BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /blog
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule./
index.php
* # END WordPress
* However, issue remains. The problem seems to be that WordPress *does not ADD
any rules* to the file once I select one of the permalink options. It leaves
the .htaccess file untouched. This to me seems to be the root cause.
* Any idea?
* [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
* (@filosofo)
* [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-solving-permalink-issue/#post-308571)
* If WP is in the blog sub-directory, then I’m pretty sure it needs to look like
this:
` # BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteBase/
blog/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php # END WordPress (and that’s in the.
htaccess file in the blog/ directory)
* Thread Starter [ralfrottmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ralfrottmann/)
* (@ralfrottmann)
* [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-solving-permalink-issue/#post-308573)
* I am close to giving up and migrating to MovableType. I changed the .htaccess
file as you’ve posted. Issue remains. The key thing is that WordPress 2.0 ***
never adds any rewrite rules to .htaccess***. Do you have any idea why? Isn’t
it supposed to add a list of rewrite rules to .htaccess when I change the permalinks
options?
* [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
* (@vkaryl)
* [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-solving-permalink-issue/#post-308575)
* WordPress now handles that internally. Your .htaccess will always look like that
posted above. That’s how it’s planned to work.
* [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
* (@filosofo)
* [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-solving-permalink-issue/#post-308576)
* > Isn’t it supposed to add a list of rewrite rules to .htaccess when I change
> the permalinks options?
* No, for WP 2.0, all that stuff is handled internally. WP 2.0 would not add anything
else to the .htaccess file other than what I put above. So, if you have the .
htaccess file as above, and you have selected something other than “Default”
under Permalinks, your permalinks should go to the right posts. I don’t know
why they wouldn’t.
* [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
* (@vkaryl)
* [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-solving-permalink-issue/#post-308577)
* There are various threads on this over the last few days; there appears to be
some problems with use of any custom permalink settings (that is, anything other
than the default shown on the permalinks page). One assumes that the devs will
eventually get it sorted before much longer.
* Thread Starter [ralfrottmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ralfrottmann/)
* (@ralfrottmann)
* [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-solving-permalink-issue/#post-308579)
* … while “default” points to the URL parameter options ?p=xyz right? The URL parameter
version is not considered a permalink at all, or?
* Well, seems as if I can only wait. I still wonder why WordPress 2.0 does not
inject the above code into my .htaccess file.
* [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
* (@filosofo)
* [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-solving-permalink-issue/#post-308582)
* What happens when you check, e.g. “Date and name based” under Options > Permalinks(
clicking the Update Permalink Structure button)? Do you see the permalinks for
the individual posts? What happens when you click them?
* Thread Starter [ralfrottmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ralfrottmann/)
* (@ralfrottmann)
* [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-solving-permalink-issue/#post-308595)
* I do see the permalinks. They seem to be correct. However clicking them I end
up on a “This page cannot be found” error.
* As an example for one of the generated links here is the URL:
* [http://www.rottmann.net/blog/index.php/2006/01/02/updated-blog-to-version-20/](http://www.rottmann.net/blog/index.php/2006/01/02/updated-blog-to-version-20/)
* So the URLs get updated however once I submit this URL it seems as if there is
no redirect. Instead the browser tries to load the physical page at the address
which – obviously – is not there.
* [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
* (@filosofo)
* [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-solving-permalink-issue/#post-308596)
* Okay, try removing the “index.php” from the permalink structure. In other words,
go with something like `/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/`
so you get something
like `http://www.rottmann.net/blog/2006/01/02/updated-blog-to-version-20/`
* Thread Starter [ralfrottmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ralfrottmann/)
* (@ralfrottmann)
* [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-solving-permalink-issue/#post-308598)
* SOLVED IT!
* Now all three options offered by WordPress 2.0 work like a charm!!!
* Thank you so much for your patience. Any idea why the default way offered by
WP 2.0 did not work?
* Man, I hope this helps lots of users out there.
* [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
* (@vkaryl)
* [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-solving-permalink-issue/#post-308599)
* That IS the default.
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