Even without auto-updating the .htaccess file turned on, I see that if I leave my permalink structure blank, and putting in a new string for the category base, I get no rewrite rules to use to update my .htaccess.
Looks like a bug, please file a detailed bug report. Any help fixing it would be awesome, too.
If the peramlinks structure box is empty, all permalinks are disabled. This is intended.
i can’t get the button to work either. i always cut and paste the code into .htaccess file and upload. it’s quite a pain to have to do it everytime.
pineapplemike, getting the button to work is a different issue. Set the file’s (.htaccess) permissions right, and you can have auto-updated .htaccess files.
The question was essentially different.
I just had the following happen updating from 1.5.1.1 to 1.5.2.
New .htaccess with permissions 666.
Options/Permalinks with Structure filled in as in previous version, + Category base left blank as in previous version. The same thing happened – message permalinks updated, but blank .htaccess file.
Tried this many times. If I did not set permissions writable, then I could get the text to paste manually, and the permalinks work fine, as far as I can tell. I suspect if I add a new page or category, I would have to manually edit the .htaccess file.
This must be a bug, and I will see if it’s relevant to add to your ticket, Christine or open a new one.
After the initial permalinks creation, does WP only write to (or need to write to) the .htaccess file when a new WP Page is created?
Can you guys take a look at this thread: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/42176 ?
I created the htaccess file when i started the site ages ago. So maybe it hasnt updated since?
