after you change the permalink, have you just not done anything for 30 minutes or so? Just let it be for abit while the server does its thing.
Yes I tried what you said. Nothing happened for a day.
I’ve contacted my hosting service, and they said URL rewrote isn’t possible because I have hosting for Windows and that feature is only available for Linux hosting packages.
BUT I know somebody who has the same hosting service and his permalinks work just fine. Unfortunately for personal reasons I can’t ask him for advice
I’m really depressed, my pages look hideous.
Do they affect traffic these ugly permalinks, or is the change to pretty ones just recommended for esthetic purposes?
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Check out the Permalinks documentation here. In particular, look at the “Almost Pretty” permalinks — you can use those, no mod_rewrite necessary.
Thank you for your advice HandySolo, but it didn’t fully resolve my problem. Turns out even the almost pretty permalinks didn’t work so I uploaded a php.ini file to my webroot as instructed in the documentation. Now the homepage opens but when I click on a post or page it still gives me 404 error…any ideas, please?
I’ve contacted my hosting service, and they said URL rewrote isn’t possible because I have hosting for Windows and that feature is only available for Linux hosting packages.
I think you just answered yourself. Move to a Linux plan. (It’ll save you a lot of headaches in the long run; not just in terms of permalinks.)
Yeah I suppose it would be a solution, only problem is I don’t a thing about Linux operating system, almost permalinks don’t work either though…although I implemented the two lines of code specified, just in case I have IIS 6…I don’t know what to do anymore…I’ve almost given up.
