Title: Permalink cluster*#$@
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Permalink cluster*#$@

 *  [urbanscout](https://wordpress.org/support/users/urbanscout/)
 * (@urbanscout)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-cluster/)
 * I wanted to change my permalinks to be just the postname. Every time I change
   it to that, none of my links work. I created an .htaccess file with the code 
   wordpress told me:
 * <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-
   f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule
   >
 * I created an .htaccess file and tried putting it both in urbanscout.org/.htaccess
   and urbanscout.org/wordpress/.htaccess.
 * I changed the permissions of the .htaccess to be able to 666 as they said.
 * When I have the file in urbanscout.org/.htaccess my site does not work. Even 
   when I have a _blank_ file called .htaccess in this folder, the site says, “Server
   error.”
 * When I have the file in urbanscout.org/wordpress/.htaccess, the main page loads,
   but when I click on a blog to read it, I get a 404 not found page.
 * I thought it might be because I changed it to only the postname and it said you
   may have trouble doing that, but I changed it to several other options and none
   of them worked. I don’t understand why my wordpress options told me that it could
   not access my .htaccess file even after I changed the permissions.
 * According to my host GoDaddy, I have Apache, so the mod_rewrite should work:
   
   [http://help.godaddy.com/article.php?article_id=898&topic_id=](http://help.godaddy.com/article.php?article_id=898&topic_id=)
 * I read through the wordpress site:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)
 * As suggested in the permalinks page here, and a few other places, I tried changing
   my wp-includes/vars.php file to:
 * $is_apache = 1;
 * and my site would not load, saying that there was an error on file wp-includes/
   vars.php line 37.
 * AAAAHHH! Please help me.

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 *  Thread Starter [urbanscout](https://wordpress.org/support/users/urbanscout/)
 * (@urbanscout)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-cluster/page/2/#post-651941)
 * Even though when I click Update Permalinks, and it says, “Permalinks Updated”
   the links still don’t work. it doesn’t even tell me to update my .htaccess files
   anymore. What does that mean?
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-cluster/page/2/#post-651943)
 * They should both look like:
 *     ```
       # BEGIN WordPress
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /wordpress/
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
       RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]
       </IfModule>
   
       # END WordPress
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [urbanscout](https://wordpress.org/support/users/urbanscout/)
 * (@urbanscout)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-cluster/page/2/#post-651945)
 * It looks like wordpress has created an .htaccess file in the root directory, 
   but not the wordpress directory. Yet when I create an .htaccess file, blank or
   with the same code as the other, the site reverts to text only and the links 
   still don’t work.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-cluster/page/2/#post-651946)
 * Post less and read more…
 *  Thread Starter [urbanscout](https://wordpress.org/support/users/urbanscout/)
 * (@urbanscout)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-cluster/page/2/#post-651949)
 * It automatically created this one in the root:
 * > # BEGIN WordPress
   >  <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / 
   > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule./
   > index.php [L] </IfModule>
   > # END WordPress
 * I changed it to your mark up with “wordpress” in the appropriate places, and 
   created the same one for the directory folder as well. The site still reverts
   to text only when I put in your code to the .htaccess file in the WP directory.
   And the links still don’t work.
 * …and the site now has a 500 internal server error again…
 * > post less read more…
 * Haha. I’m trying. I’ve been at this for over 12 hours now and still no luck. 
   I am not computer savvy, but it looks like even the savvy ones are having a hard
   time with this one. I really appreciate your help. You’re the first person actually
   helping me figure it out.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-cluster/page/2/#post-651952)
 * What I posted I copied from a site where I set up WP exactly like your instllation:
   
   showing blog at the root having it installed in a directory called “wordpress”
 * True, it is on a real host, not godaddy. (Everybody should do one thing well:
   they are great for registering domains but they are not so great as hosting company)
 *  Thread Starter [urbanscout](https://wordpress.org/support/users/urbanscout/)
 * (@urbanscout)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-cluster/page/2/#post-651957)
 * Um… I have no idea what I did, but it works.
 * I have only one .htaccess file, and it’s in the root.
 * I think the key was you having me copy the index.php into the WP directory.
 * Than I deleted all the .htaccess files and changed everything back to normal 
   in the permalinks. This must have created a default .htaccess file, which I was
   than able to change to /%postname%/ and bam!
 * All that screwing around with the .htaccess must have messed it up. Now I just
   hope my site doesn’t crash after 20 minutes…

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-cluster/page/2/#post-651957)
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