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And there is nothing in the /wp-admin/edit-comments.php

That’s exactly the symptom I get. There are no plugins enabled. I did a search and the similar problems were resolved by deactivating plugins, or not resolved at all. It seems a bug report was filed on this behavior.

Any ideas from the WP gurus?

Yeah, yeah, but do the comments work for you?

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I went mucking around in the File Manager and set the file permissions for .htaccess to rw- rw- rw-. Now I can set the Permalink structure from the Options page. Yay!

OK, I updated the permissions code and the site works properly. Still I think I have a permissions issue. How should I set the permissions for that folder & file?

OK, I created a blank .htaccess file in the WP root. Updated permalink structure, and it gives me a bunch of code to paste into the file.

But the docs say that WP should be able to create/update this file automatically. The permissions for the WP directory are rwx r-x r-x. The permissions for the .htaccess file are rw- r– r–. Do I have a permissions problem?

Well, I created an empty .htaccess file and put it in the wordpress root. The system went belly-up with a 500 error. OK, deleted the .htaccess file, put in the info.php file, and now I have a huge response with more than I ever wanted to know. mod-rewrite appears under the list of ‘loaded modules’. Now what?

Well that’s a good question. The server is running a recent version of Apache. Where should the .htaccess file be located and what should it contain?

Yeah, I tried re-installing everything in the default directory. Try

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Now the funny thing is, the RSS was working with the sample post. Now I made a couple of test posts, and the RSS and categories seem broken again.