could it be my htaccess file? if so could someone walk me through changing it to be writable? thanks again.
If it is your .htacess file:
o Make a backup of .htacess ( not to be sorry later 🙂
o Delete the contents of .htaccess, i.e save an empty version
o Set the permission of the .htaccess file to 664
o Go to your WordPress admin page Options/permalinks and check that you have the permailnk structure you want
o Click “Update permalink structure”. WordPress should now write the rewrite rules to the .htaccess file.
my ftp client is not letting me change the permission on htacess the error is that chmod is only available on linux not windows? It never did that before, why now? anyway, thanks so much for your help!
I have no experience with WordPress on Windows.
It’s a pity that your permalinks doesn’t work, and something has to be done about that for sure.
I guess you have to contact your service provider and ask them to solve this problem.
Is it wierd that I am using windows? does wordpress have a history of being buggy with windows? thanks again
Well, no. There has been discussions about permalinks on windows before. Maybe this thread will spread some light on the matter:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/31867?eplies=11, especially the linked article in the Codex on using permalinks without mod rewrite.
“If you put a filename at the beginning, WordPress will attempt to use that to pass the arguments and bypass the necessity for mod_rewrite.
/index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/”
I don’t quite understand what filename I’m supposed to put in at the beginning…
hey nevermind! I fixed it, thanks sooooo much for all your help!!
noodles: You’re a star 😉
How did you fix it, please!
