makuchaku

Hi all,
I was facing exactly the same problem – switched to fancy URL’s and it started showing up 404 errors for category names.

Solution
– Enable mod_rewrite in your apache2 installation
#a2enmod rewrite; /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
– Change “AllowOverride None” to “AllowOverride All” in your virtual host config.
– Create an .htaccess file in your WP’s root dir. I have WP installed in ${document_root}/content and my .htaccess looks like

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /content/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /content/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

And voila! It works!

Thanks all for the discussion which finally helped :))

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Maku
http://makuchaku.in