If you have permalinks turned on, then your RSS 2.0 feed is at http://www.example.com/feed and you Atom feed is at http://www.example.com/feed/atom
If you don’t have permalinks turned on, then your RSS 2.0 is at http://www.example.com/wp-rss2.php and your Atom is at http://www.example.com/wp-atom.php
is there an advantage to having permalinks?
thanks byw
also im using wp 1.5 i dont see where to turn permalinks on. can u tell me plz?
The advantage to permalinks is just that your URL’s will look nicer. Other than that, no advantage.
To turn them on, login to your admin panel, and then go to Options>Permalinks. Enter a structure into the little box (the one suggested is good) and then click the ‘Update Permalinks’ button. Some text will appear in a text box and then you need to copy that into a file called .htaccess. That is, the file has no name, but it’s file extension is .htaccess. Then upload that to your blog directory. I suggest you make it writeable by the server (CHMOD 777) so that if you make any structure changes, they will be automatically reflected without you having to do anything.
ahh thats what i was missing i appreciate your help.
I copied the info and saved it as a txt file but calles it .htaccess and uploaded it to the blog directory. However once I did this I got the following error
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@theelusivepotofgold.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
It worked fine after I deleted the file but then no rss feed. What did I do wrong?
