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I added a LoadModule for mod_rewrite to Apache and restarted without upsetting any of the other websites.

The permalink structure is set to /%category%/%postname%/

less /var/www/www.napaexcellence.ca/cms/en/.htaccess shows

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /cms/en/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /cms/en/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

The permalink looks ok on the post edit page.
If I try to follow the permalink from the edit post page I get the following

Apache access log
127.0.0.1 – – [19/Jan/2011:14:29:37 -0500] “GET /cms/en/welcome/welcomeuap/skillsoft-courses/ HTTP/1.0” 404 242
Apache error log
[Wed Jan 19 14:29:37 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/www.napaexcellence.ca/cms/en/welcome, referer: http://www.napaexcellence.ca/cms/en/wp-admin/post.php?post=17&action=edit&message=1

What am I doing wrong?
Any ideas about where to look next?

I seem to have made a bit of a mess doing it.

As I mentioned above I tried to change from default to /%category%/%postname%/.
The permalinks associated with the posts looked like I expected them to but the URL
…/feed did not return any posts. Apache just complained that the page was not found with a 404 error
Not Found
The requested URL /cms/en/feed was not found on this server.
http://www.napaexcellence.ca/cms/en/?feed=rss
gets rewritten as
http://www.napaexcellence.ca/cms/en/feed/rss/
with the same 404.

I tried to go back to the default but even though the permalinks on the posts look OK when I click on view page, I get an error.

I have done a bit more reading on Permalinks and found a bunch of things to do to Apache to enable the URL rewriting.
I will have to restart the server later tonight and hope I got everything right.

I changed the permalink to /%category%/%postname%/ and that was even worse.
…/feed still did not work and it remaps the URLS so that …/?feed=rss gets mapped to …/feed/rss which does not work.
So I had no working RSS feed.

I changed the permalink back to the default but it still does the remapping.

Is there any way to avoid dumping the installation and starting over?