Title: permalinks and foo.example.com
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# permalinks and foo.example.com

 *  [jamesbisset](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesbisset/)
 * (@jamesbisset)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-and-fooexamplecom/)
 * Hi – I’m new to wordpress and I’m trying to get my permalinks to work.
    I’m using
   1.2.1. I’ve got htaccess enabled. My wordpress is in /blog, and so is my blog
   if you see what I mean. I want to use the permalink path like so: /%year%/%monthnum%/%
   day%/%postname%/ note that I’ve missed out /archives/ – but I’m sure that’s not
   causing the problem. I’ve copied and pasted the supplied mod rewrite stuff into
   my htaccess file (permissions 666) and now any url inside /blog resolves to <
   [http://foo.example.com/cgi-bin/tester&gt](http://foo.example.com/cgi-bin/tester&gt);
   Anyone got any idea what’s going on?

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-and-fooexamplecom/#post-106672)
 * Just out of curiousity: did you try whether it works by adding `/archives/` at
   the beginning of the line?
 *  Thread Starter [jamesbisset](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesbisset/)
 * (@jamesbisset)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-and-fooexamplecom/#post-106678)
 * heh – out of curiosity I’ve just tested it quickly with the non mod-rewrite option–
   ie sticking index.php at the beginning of the path. With /archives/ and without
   both just delivered 404.
 *  Thread Starter [jamesbisset](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesbisset/)
 * (@jamesbisset)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-and-fooexamplecom/#post-106921)
 * Well, a conspicious silence on this subject suggests that maybe I should be talking
   to my hosting service instead 😉
    FWIW, I’ve been troubleshooting. If this isn’t
   obvious to anyone else out there already, the problem seems to be the .htaccess
   file rather than whatever WP does when you switch on permalinks. As soon as I
   insert the .htaccess file in /blog/, all urls inside /blog get resolved to [http://foo.example.com/cgi-bin/tester](http://foo.example.com/cgi-bin/tester)
   as soon as the actual link is submitted to the server. This happens whether or
   not I ‘update permalink structure’. The server is running OSX using Apache. If
   I delete the content in .htaccess then everything is fine. So htaccess is obviously
   working, but the server is stumbling over the instructions. BTW, the .htaccess
   code is: `Options FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /blog/  RewriteRule
   ^category/(.*)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/wp-feed.php?category_name=$1&
   feed=$2 [QSA] RewriteRule ^category/?(.*) /blog/index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA]
   RewriteRule ^author/(.*)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/wp-feed.php?author_name
   =$1&feed=$2 [QSA] RewriteRule ^author/?(.*) /blog/index.php?author_name=$1 [QSA]
   RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/?([0-9]{1,2})?/?([0-9]{1,2})?/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?([0-9]
   +)?/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&page=$5 [QSA] RewriteRule
   ^([0-9]{4})/?([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([_0-9a-z-]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?
   $ /blog/wp-feed.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&feed=$5 [QSA] RewriteRule
   ^([0-9]{4})/?([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([_0-9a-z-]+)/trackback/?$ /blog/wp-trackback.
   php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4 [QSA] RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?
   $ /blog/wp-feed.php?feed=$1 [QSA] RewriteRule ^comments/feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?
   $ /blog/wp-feed.php?feed=$1&withcomments=1 [QSA] And no, the ‘options FollowSymlinks’
   makes no difference at this stage
 *  Thread Starter [jamesbisset](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesbisset/)
 * (@jamesbisset)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-and-fooexamplecom/#post-107207)
 * Well, it was down to the way the hostiing service was configured. This from my
   host admin:
 * > There’s a config directive called AllowOverride where you specify which config
   > directives can be overridden by .htaccess. I originally had it set to allowing
   > specific features which included ReWrite. However, I just set it to “All” and
   > obviously, that seems to have done it. 🙂
 * So, it works now 🙂

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-and-fooexamplecom/#post-107207)
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