Posted 7 months ago #
Hi,
I had my wordpress install in a subfolder /blog/
Decided to move the blog to the root of the site.
Followed the instructions regarding giving wordpress its own folder.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory
This was successful.
The blog is displayed as the site root, pages & post links work.
I can log in as admin via /blog/wp-login.php
Everything in the admin seems normal there, apart from one thing (so far):
the Settings > Permalinks section remains black?
Posted 7 months ago #
Something similar happened to this guy here:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/260164?replies=3
Maybe post over there and see if they got it fixed and how.
Posted 7 months ago #
I resolved my issue. Sometimes the problem can be with the instructions.
I thought it had to have something to do with the .htaccess file.
In the root I already had a .htaccess file. So when I did step 7, I set the old htaccess aside and copied the one from /blog (which generally would be /wordpress) over to root.
Searching didn't really yield the answer, so I figured I would compare the two files for any lacking code. Sure enough.
In my case the .htacceess file from inside /blog lacks a first line I had in the root .htaccess:
AddHandler php5-script .php
Which likely is present due to my provider allowing to select php4 or php5 via the hosting control panel.
Once I restored my original .htaccess file (which included the 8 lines of required wordpress code by the way) the preferences permalinks page returned.
Hopefully this will help resolve the problem for somebody with the same issue.
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