I would do it manually but I don’t even know what a functioning permalink structure should look like. Please help!
Basically I want to mirror the file structure that I had on my wordpress.com blog, which I had mapped to blog.farawayflyfishing.com, so that the links & urls stay the same. For whatever reason, the attachement pages & links don’t work
The permalinks are set to: blog.farawayflyfishing.com/index.php/year/month/day/name,
but there’s no such file directory structure & none of the links work. where could the blog pages be located? I installed wordpress & set up the database, and imported the xml file exactly according the instructions.
Why are you using index.php in your custom structure? Have you tried just selecting the pre-configured year/month/day/name setting?
That’s what I did do. It confuses me too. In my wp control panel, the option for common permalink settings are:
Common settings
Default http://blog.farawayflyfishing.com/?p=123
Day and name http://blog.farawayflyfishing.com/index.php/2010/04/06/sample-post/
Month and name http://blog.farawayflyfishing.com/index.php/2010/04/sample-post/
Numeric http://blog.farawayflyfishing.com/index.php/archives/123
Custom Structure
I chose Day & name cause that’s what I thought was needed. There is no folder structure under the root directory for year/month/day Where would the posts be located?
Month and Name = year/month/day/name
What site url is being used in Admin/Settings/General?
http://blog.farawayflyfishing.com/wp-admin/options-permalink.php
month & name = year/month/name
day & name = year/month/day/name
What site url has been entered in Admin/Settings/General?
that URL doesn’t work yet cause I had to reset the DNS settings so that it would stop mapping to my wordpress.com site, but you can still see it if you put blog.farawayflyfishing.com/index.php
In that case, I’d wait until your DN has propagated and then retry the custom permalinks again.
