Dazed and Confused over .htaccess and permalinks

  • Recently installed WordPress 1.5.1.1. Everything seems to work fine with the exception of Permalinks. They do work if the structure starts with “/index.php” however, if I remove the “index.php” (as required by one of my plugins) then permalinks do not work (actually they did work properly for about 5 mins). One thing I have noticed: though I have my .htaccess file permissions set to 666 and mod_rewrite is installed on my server, my .htaccess file is never written to. I am fairly sure this is the cause of my permalink problem however, have no idea why the .htaccess file is not being updated. I did notice something on the codex about an “allowoverride” statement in Apache. I do not see that listed on my php.info file. I am checking with my ISP on that. Any other suggestions?

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  • Make sure that the .htacess file is in the right folder. This may sound stupid but I know that people do this…..

    Cron

    Thread Starter professorfalkon

    (@professorfalkon)

    It is on my public_html directory, same as my index.php. One thing I have noticed: if I try to edit the .htaccess file in manage/files, I get this message “Warning: fread(): Length parameter must be greater than 0. in /home/joshua/public_html/wp-admin/templates.php on line 73”. Could that possibly have anything to do with the problem? Reaching here…..

    When you place /index.php in your Permalink structure, it effectively makes nice URL’s work without the use of a .htaccess file.

    If WP is having a tough time writing to your .htaccess file, just take the contents that the Permalink page gives you, save it to a local file called .htaccess and upload it to your website. After that, perhaps the Manage/files will work as well.

    Regards

    Thread Starter professorfalkon

    (@professorfalkon)

    Update, found my answer here.

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