Your Permalinks aren’t functioning.
A) Visit Options -> Permalinks. If WordPress is telling you that you need to manually add some content to your .htaccess, do so!
B) If .htaccess is ok, confirm with your host that they have enabled mod_rewrite and set AllowOverrides.
C) If still not working, have a look at the troubleshooting sections at Permalinks and Using_Permalinks.
Thread Starter
loren1
(@loren1)
What do I need to change in the options section? Also, if wordpress was telling me to add content to my .htaccess, where would it tell me that? I haven’t seen anything like that.
In your main blog directory, do you have an .htaccess file?
If WordPress can’t write to it, it will display to you what should be in there (at the bottom of the Options -> Permalinks page).
Thread Starter
loren1
(@loren1)
Hmm, I don’t see an .htaccess file and I’m not really sure where to put one. The pages work fine when I leave the permalinks as the default option but not if I change it.
If you’re using an FTP program to check, make sure you’re looking in the main blog directory (top level) and that you have it set to show hidden files.
I also had steps b and c listed up above that you might look into. Granted, if you’re not getting an .htaccess file built, that’ll preclude those.
