hi, this sounds like exactly the same issue i’ve been having.
- root of site is managed by wp2.1 as per giving WP its own dir
- permalinks work fine in this context for pages & entries
however as soon as the permalink setup is changed to _any_ other format, all goes pear-shaped.
i’ve searched a lot on the forums and seen a huge # of issues related to this but nobody seems to have managed to get to the bottom of it.
my system is
- OpenBSD 4.0
- default chrooted apache + mod_rewrite + mod_webdav
- blog is installed in /var/www/wordpress/ and softlinked from /var/www/htdocs/wordpress/
- php5-hardened modules
- wp 2.1 fresh from svn “a few days ago”
/var/www/htdocs $ cat .htaccess
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
I’ve left my blog with the faulty settings at present so you can take a look & see what is currently failing.
the desired settings were
- custom prefix for categories -> /tags
- custom permalink structure -> /archives/%postname%
cheers, scorch
