Michael

Hey guys, I actually resolved my problem with some help from another forum poster. Here are the instructions he gave me that worked for correcting my permalinks:

.htaccess should be the files name.

you could try to use the wp-admin section to generate one for you:

Settings -> Permalinks -> Click “Save Changes” at the bottom of the screen. If this doesn’t work, here is the code that should be in the file

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

# END WordPress

(Don’t worry, it’s the same for all permalink combinations – all it really says is “if the requested url is not a physical file or directory on the server, send the request to index.php”)

.htaccess files are very tricky. The first one I ever created rendered my site useless, the code was correct, but I had used a bad text editor, that had added element to the code which I could not see. Textedit might be saving the file with formatting.

My advice to you would be to log into your host’s cpanel, vhost or plesk application and see if you can find a “File Manager”. This is a piece of software that you allow you to navigate the files on your server an edit then in plain text. Please give this a try and let me know how you make out.

I’m all set my friend! I took your instructions and created the file straight through my server and included the text you gave me. Permalinks work perfectly now.

Thanks very much for the help. It was very appreciated.

I am having the very same problem. My permalinks are broken. Does someone have the definitive solution regarding .htaccess, where to put it on your server, and what permissions to apply to it?

Actually yes, there is no .htaccess file on my server. I tried uploading a new one last night but I immediately got a Forbidden error because of it. I must not have done it correctly.

Are there solid instructions on how to upload this file? The ones I found said to create a .htaccess file which I did through Textedit using .htaccess as the file extension. Was that correct?