Rename home.php to something like homepage.php. And ensure that you followed the instructions for creating a custom page template and correctly applied the new template to your chosen home Page.
The filename home.php is a reserved file on many servers, so using this name is likely to be the source of your current problems.
Still not working. I am doing this on my peronal computer using WAMP. Would that cause a problem? I literally load wordpress, make a static page title Home and a static page title Blog. Go to Settings > reading and set static page, home page for front page and blog for posts page. I then view my site and the home page appears. Then when I press blog or the about page I get a message saying “oops it appears this link is broken.” I have permalinks set to %postname%
Is there something I am missing? What should the .htaccess redirect be?
Mine is as follows (blog1 is the wordpress folder name in my WAMP environment)
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog1/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog1/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Ok, so it has to be the WAMP I am running on my local machine, I just tried this on my legitimate server and it works fine… Weird!
