problems getting my permalinks to work – please help

Hi,

I am a bit of a newbie but have read alot and tried to understand
where I have gone wrong but can not see it 🙁

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I have set up my wordpress on /blog directory

In the root I have this index.php:

<?php
/* Short and sweet */
define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);
require(‘./blog/wp-blog-header.php’);
?>

and in the /blog directory:

<?php
/* Short and sweet */
define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);
require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);
?>

Thats seems OK but linking to my categories doesn’t work.

Under Settings – General I have:

WordPress address (URL) = http://www.fethiye-guide.com/blog
Blog address (URL) = http://www.fethiye-guide.com

IS THIS CORRECT ?

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My permalink structure is:

Custom = /Turkey/Fethiye/%category%/%postname%

My .htaccess is:

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

and the permission is set to 666

You can see the result at http://www.fethiye-guide.com

Unfortunately the links are not working – but I don’t know what I did wrong 🙁

I notice that even though my permissions are set to 666 for the .htaccess, I still get this notice:

“If your .htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically …”

Which would seem to indicate that the permissions are not set to write … BUT they are ???

Would really appreciate anyone helping me out 🙂
many thanks
Dave