/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html is not going to work, because Permalinks must create Folder names, not File names.
For more details, see:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
Please try /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/
Thank you for the quick response. I did try the one without .html at the end and that didn’t work either.
You say Permalinks must create Folder names. How do I make sure my permissions are set so that WordPress is allowed to do this? I was trying to automatically update wordpress and it failed because it couldn’t create (read write) a file on my ftp server.
Again, my host is Intermedia (rare and weird) and it is on a Windows 2003 Server (no idea if that helps you).
Btw, I installed FileZilla and tried setting the permissions of my blog folder and all its subfolders to 766 and it told me “command not supported”.
Thanks again 🙂
Permalinks work differently with windows servers and unfortunately with windows 2003 IIS is not supported. You will need to check with your host to see if re-write modules are installed and configure correctly.
If your server is operating under fastCGI then any third party re-write plugins wont work either.
As for the htaccess, the rules quoted above are for linux based servers. Do a quick search in the forum you will find the relevant rules for windows. Plus you gona need a web.config file with specific rules.
Sorry I dislike windows server when it comes to wordpress, so am not going to attempt to give you certain rules and settings for either file – its just too much of a hastle to get the right combination of htaccess and web.config to work.
for windows servers
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Permalinks_without_mod_rewrite
/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html is not going to work, because Permalinks must create Folder names, not File names.
actually that will work quite well on a linux server
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Having_your_posts_end_in_.html
Thank you both ZGani and samboll for the responses. I used the link for permalinks without mod_rewrite and found a 404 workaround which now lets me have the pretty permalinks. However, I have one last question to bug you with before I let you live your awesome lives again.
Since the 404 workaround works only for the links of the posts, any other 404 on my website is showing a blank page. How do I set a different 404 page for the website apart from the one I have for my blog?
Again, http://www.seabrookwa.com/blog is where my blog is, while the website is http://www.seabrookwa.com
THANK YOU!
