.htaccess does not work properly?

  • I’ve been reading about using permalinks now for a while and I thought I understood the process…

    you make your .htaccess writable for example 777, you then change the permalink structure to what you want and apply the changes… since the file is writable wordpress will put the necessary changes in place. You make chmod the file to 644 and the permalinks should work.

    I am running apache 2 with mod_rewrite enabled and all of the above happened… I even deleted the .htaccess file, created an empty one and repeated the process and it doesnt’ work. (I get a page not found)

    It only works if I add “index.php” in front of the structure but I thought I wouldnt need to do that with the setup I have. Can you help me with this? The .htaccess file seems too complex for a beginner like me to be editing.

    This seems to be a constant issue for beginners like me but most of the other posts I read were due to skiping a step or not having mod_rewrite or somethign else but I believe I have verified that I have all that I need and I’m doing this correctly.. If it helps I can post my .htaccess files for review.

    Here’s the structure I want to use
    /archives/%year%/%postname%/

    I have full access to my server so I can look at whatever you think its necessary to help me with this.
    Thanks a lot!

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  • Thread Starter Oscar Gonzalez

    (@rakxzo)

    I verified that mod_rewrite is on by looking at my httpd.conf file…

    it has this line in there:

    LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

    and the mod_rewrite.so file is under the modules directory for apache. Thats all I could think to do… am I missing something?

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Try inputting this as your permalink structure:

    /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

    Thread Starter Oscar Gonzalez

    (@rakxzo)

    Thanks I tried that as well but it didnt work. I kept reading about this over and over then I found in the codex they have something about AllowOverride… it has to be enabled, mine was set to “none” i changed this in a couple places and it started working. I guess I did miss something after all. Thanks.

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