just an update,
here is the link to the article I found
http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Using_Permalinks
and the blurb that pointed me in the direction I went
“Otherwise, they are the same as the “pretty” mod_rewrite permalinks, and are similarly flexible. Anything that mod_rewrite permalinks can do, PATHINFO permalinks can do, with the help of that /index.php part. ”
If it helps any, I was having an issue getting permalinks to work as well. I just spent a good amount of time reading articles about permalinks. I came across one (sorry, dont remember where it was) that showed a permalink address as http://www.domain.com/index.php/blog-name. but when I checked my address bar to see where it was getting directed to, it didn’t have the index.php portion in it.
just for the hell of it, I selected custom structure and entered: /index.php/%postname%/
Surprisingly this actually worked. I think wordpress needs to have that issue fixed. Hopefully this will help you out
PS i did not do anything with any .htaccess files or anything like that. what you see above is all I did
