A plugin would be amazing. I have not come across any solution for this issue and I have looked for a long time. Shoot me an email and i will send you a link to an example of a site we started building and had some custom programming to make it happen. BUT the CMS it is built on doesn’t have much support for the long haul of what we want to do so we are moving it to wordpress. My email is [email protected]. Thanks and talk to you soon.
I dont know what a host file ethod is, I always used the temp URL before with no issues.
I changed the .htaccess to a new file with just the mod rewrite (I did that before) but it still only removes the permalink extension i.e. /about ending and goes straight to the 404 page. I also changed the permalinks in the db to see if the combination of changing .htaccess files and permalinks was a combo I hadn’t used yet but still it is not woorking.