.htaccess is writeable; but Permalink not working; blog in subdomain

  • Hi,

    I’ve been working on my blog for 2 weeks and I can’t find any solutions.

    I’ve uploaded my .htaccess file to my blog directory and I can edit and save changes to it from the WP control panel, so i guess it’s been set to enable WP to re-write to this file.

    After I’ve changed my permalink option to Date and Name based, it shows a message that my permalink structure has been updated. I checked my .htaccess file and it shows the codes as per followed:

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

# END WordPress

    But I still can’t access my blog posts from my browser, not even the homepage https://4life.cheanu.com (I can browse https://4life.cheanu.com/index.php instead, if I type in the full URL in my browser). I can’t browse to my other posts too.

    Please help.

    PS: I’m using WP 2.3

    Thanks!

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  • Your host doesn’t have index.php set up in the default document list. Have them set it up for you and then try again. In the mean time change your permalinks back to default.

    https://4life.cheanu.com/
    Read carefully the whole error message you get there.
    Pay special attention to the lines containing “IIS” and “Microsoft”.

    It means you can NOT use .htaccess and mod_rewrite, because that MS thing does NOT support it.
    More info Using_Permalinks

    I didn’t even notice IIS, good call.

    But your host still doesn’t have index.php set up in the default document list, which if you want https://4life.cheanu.com instead of https://4life.cheanu.com/index.php to work then they’ll need to set that up.

    Thread Starter cheanu

    (@cheanu)

    Thanks everyone for the reply.
    I’ve got my index.php figured out and I can now browse directly at https://4life.cheanu.com

    However, I can’t jump to my posts if I’m using permalink formats other than the default (ugly permalink).

    I’ve changed the permalinks format after I’ve figured out the index.php problem, yet my permalinks are not working. Please help.

    As moshu stated earlier, IIS doesn’t support anything other than the default. You’ll need a webserver running apache to use the other permalinks.

    It means you can NOT use .htaccess and mod_rewrite, because that MS thing does NOT support it.
    More info Using_Permalinks

    I’m having the same issue, my permalinks won’t work. I checked to see if Netfirms was running IIS but they are running Apache/1.3.34 (Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 mod_perl/1.26 So any other ideas? default works but nothing else. I’m running the lattes WP / Version 2.3.2

    For those using Netfirms, there is a wonderful plugin solving the issue of the Pretty Permalinks: https://www.joelika.com/netfirms-pretty-permalinks
    Just delete the .htaccess file, install the plugin and: Voila!

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