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1. suehutton
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   I've just installed WP 2.7 today and all seemed to be going well until I tried to activate custom Permalinks.

   I've got in a muddle with .htaccess files and permissions. Nowhere is very explicit about what permission is actually required for a .htaccess file.

   Furthermore, .htaccess files of different kinds can be found in the site root and the blog root. It's all rather confusing.

   I finally seemed to manage to install custom permalinks, and sure enough, the title of my first post appeared as a clickable link. Except that when I clicked on it, it took me to the error 404 page of my website, without any CSS.

   This is the code in my .htaccess file which I have uploaded to the blog directory

   '<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>'
   'RewriteEngine On'
   'RewriteBase /sooznooz/'
   'RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f'
   'RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d'
   'RewriteRule . /wp7/index.php [L]'
   '</IfModule>'

   I haven't got any ReWriteEngine code in the .htaccess file in the root of my website.

   My home page is 'www.suehutton.co.uk' and the blog is at 'www.suehutton.co.uk/sooznooz/'

   I have had to disable the custom settings in Permalinks for the time being.

   I had installed the SuperCache plugin, but that seemed to make things worse than ever, and it wasn't clear about what file permissions were needed. So I have deactivated Super Cache.

   My web host seems to have finally loaded mod_rewrite. The fact that it hadn't two years ago was the principal reason for my not having installed WP on my website earlier.

   You'll find phpinfo at 'http://www.suehutton.co.uk/phpinfo.php'

   I would be very grateful for feedback.

2. suehutton
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Just to let you know that I have done a complete re-install of WordPress, activated Permalinks but have NOT installed the WPSuperCache plug in.

   Fingers crossed, it seems to work now.

   There's still a problem about WP writing to the .htaccess file. I have put .htaccess files with the recommended code in both the blog directory and the wp-admin directory. I don't know which one is needed.

   I changed the permissions to 777 for the .htaccess files and the permissions on the sub-directories in the blog directory to 755. I noticed that the permissions had been set to 2755. I have no idea what that means and why that should be.

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