@flabill
when you press save is there a section saying something along the lines of:
If your .htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so these are the mod_rewrite rules you should have in your .htaccess file. Click in the field and press CTRL + a to select all.
If so (and Im assuming that its a .htaccess on apache not web.config on IIS) then you will need to create your htaccess manually.
Create a file called .htaccess (No other extensions) on your desktop in any normal text editor with the data shown in the permalinks page (should be something like the below block), and upload it to the webroot of your site.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
Let me know how you go.
Cheers
Ben
Thank you, Ben
No such message appears, what comes up ia “Permalink structure updated.”
plus the message about wpbackup requires a selection other than “default”.
Bill
Looks like things are ok now.
The default selection in Permalinks has not had a bad effect on page id’s.
the pages are showing prettypermalinks so I don’t feel a need to change anything.
Bill
