how to get: www.domain.com/ categoryname/postname

Did you insert the small amount of code that WP provides after changing your permalink setting into your .htaccess file?

“Did you….”
I’d say no — the error that occurs is a 404.

If you didn’t, then you should. That little amount of code is what makes everything work.

The latest nightly build … the one from October 25 I believe …. when you change the permalink structure – it doesn’t prompt you with any code to add to the htaccess file?
I had been using the latest stable version … where when you make permalink structure changes – it prompts you with the new htaccess code to add.
Then I read that category permalinks were supported in the later nightly builds. Soo – I upgraded – made the permalink changes – and this is what I get: Permalink Structure Updated. No rewrite mods to add. ???
Am I missing something?

BTW .. .this is what I’m specifying as the structure:
structure – /%category%/%postname%/
Wordpress URI — https://www.clevelandschools.org/cms/wp

And… this is what my htaccess file looks like.
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /cms/wp/
RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?feed=_$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^comments/feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?feed=_$1&withcomments=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?paged=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^site/([^/]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?pagename=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^site/([^/]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?pagename=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^site/([^/]+)/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?pagename=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^search/(.+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?s=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^search/(.+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?s=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^search/(.+)/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?s=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?category_name=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^author/([^/]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^author/([^/]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?author_name=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^author/([^/]+)/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?author_name=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&feed=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&paged=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&feed=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&paged=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?year=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?year=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?year=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/([^/]+)/trackback/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?category_name=$1&name=$2&tb=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/([^/]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?category_name=$1&name=$2&feed=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/([^/]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?category_name=$1&name=$2&paged=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/([^/]+)/?([0-9]+)?/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?category_name=$1&name=$2&page=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?category_name=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)/?$ /cms/wp/index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Try removing
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
and
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
It’s a longshot, but it might work.

@anon (one of them ??

The latest nightly build … the one from October 25 I believe …. when you change the permalink structure – it doesn’t prompt you with any code to add to the htaccess file?

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