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That wasn’t the case. The URL listed in “WordPress address” & “Blog address” are both marked as the root directory of the domain with no file specified.

Here’s a link to the About page that I modified by inserting ‘index.php?’ You will notice that none of the othe links function:
https://www.afriendlyletter.com/index.php?page_id=2

The friend for whom I set this up accessed the WP Admin pannel, and it is possible (though unlikely), that he could have modified something to cause this. I’ve looked over the options, and I don’t see anything obvious.

The server administrator is out of town right now, but I’ve logged a request with him as well.

I’m having the same problem. I’ve worked with WP a lot, and I have a basic understanding of how the permalink settings function — but I may be missing something.

When I have the permalink settings on default, the links are structured like this:
root/page_id=N
That is turning up a ‘Not Found’ error. When I manually enter ‘index.php?’ before the page_id, it works, and I can find the page at
root/index.php?page_id=N

If I adjust the permalink settings, I get the same behavior. Thus links formatted as root/%category%/%postname%/ can be found at
root/index.php?%category%/%postname%/

This applies to all links generated by WordPress apart from the index link. My permissions on .htaccess are set at 666, and I have verified that WordPress is succeful at writing to .hataccess. I have several other WP sites with this host, and none of them have this problem — all of them worked right out of the box.

Can anybody help me with this? Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

I just upgraded from 2.0 to 2.04 and I had the same problem. None of the suggestions from any of the support threads that I found worked. The solution I found wasn’t intuitive, and I don’t know why it worked, but this is what I did:

Under the Categories tab of Manage, I selected the Edit link by the category I wanted to delete. When the Edit Category screen opened, I deleted the text in the Category Name and Category Slug fields and selected the Edit Category button. WordPress directed me back to the Manage Categories page, where there was now a category with a blank title. I selected the Delete link by this category and it disappeared. I could then delete categories without going through the steps outlined above.