Can you clarify what you have done?
ie if you add the following permalink structure: /%category%/%postname%/ what happens? Does WordPress update the .htaccess file at all? Have you tried to manually create the .htaccess file? Be as descriptive as you can on what you have tried otherwise it’s hard to know what to suggest.
My .htaccess in my root dir —
with this code
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Set permissions to 777 (on.htaccess)
Went back to my site and got this message
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /wp-admin/options-permalink.php on this server.
Checked permissions were set to 755
And on all site pages got errors saying could not fine the page.
That error is htaccess, what happens if you set the permalink structure to:
/%category%/%postname%/
And add the following to your .htaccess:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
CHMOD should be 644
Thanks for trying but no go–exact same results. I read somewhere that it might be the rewriteBase / line. I am on a shared webhost and the absolute path is
/home/w/a/mysite.com/html
so I tried rewriteBase /html
then rewriteBase /home/w/a/mysite.com/html
same result–any more ideas?
without htaccess the site works just fine–with it, it totally breaks–I haven’t a clue who to ask any more.
