pajryan

A follow-up (in case this is useful to someone other than me):

Yahoo (I use small business Standard) doesn’t allow the creation of a .htaccess file. (they won’t allow any filenames that start with ‘.’). So permalinks won’t work.

There is the permalinks work around – using something like “/index.php/archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/”

By prefixing the structure with /index.php, it’ll work but always show index.php in the URL. I don’t like it… but it’s better than looking for a new host right away (who has time for such things?)

I was having trouble with this as well, and this thread helped me get things working. But I wanted to clarify, in case someone else comes along:

In your config.php – the “host” needs to be “mysql”

but in your permissions for the wordpress user, the host needs to be “localhost” (if using phpMyAdmin, drop down on the “host” field and choose “Local”).

This got things up and running smoothly.

Now I just need to see if Yahoo will let me use permalinks (.htaccess)… we’ll see.