Permalink Help Needed

Hi.
I've recently started a health blog (see it here), and, as you can see if you browse through the posts, the links are in the format:

myurl.com/?p=43

But I want them to be in the format:

myurl.com/2009/01/post-name/

or even better:

myurl.com/category/post-name/

How do I do this?
Everytime I try and edit it it says edit .htaccess, but what is this and how do I get to it?

I'm running Wordpress 2.7 if that makes any difference.

Rep Will be given!
Thanks!

 

I think the most and good to use is myurl.com/category/post-name/

" That's SEO friendly Permalink "

for "Everytime I try and edit it it says edit .htaccess"

You may not setting .htaccess to writable mode,

 

Where can I find the .htaccess file?

And, yeah, I prefer the /category/post-name/ because it looks better and is probably better for SEO

 

See on your Public_html.

you should read this http://wordpress.org/search/htaccess

Good Luck !!

 

Hmm, I've uploaded a new .htaccess file, and it's blank. What do I need to put in the file to make the permalinks /category/post-name/ ?

Thanks.

 

- first upload the htaccess file with text file.

- Rename it with .(dot)htaccess ..

 

What do you mean by 'with text file'?
I made a new (blank) document in Notepad and uploaded it. I then renamed it .htaccess... what now?!

 

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my mean "text file is file extensions Like notepad or etc.."

yupz that's right, Btw have your fixed the error ?

 

What do I put in the text file?
At the moment it's just empty. Do I put %category%/%post-name%/ ?

 

if you will see in your WP admin where you saw , your .htaccess is not writable, in the box below it there is piece of code, copy that, and paste it on the .htaccess you created, now on the permalink tab on WP admin, check button custom permalink and write this /%category%/%postname%/

 

Hmm, when I do that I get this message:

 

I am trying to do the same. Have copied and pasted the text into a .htaccess file, uploaded it and when i try and view a post it says page not found... hmmm

 

can you post what have you pasted on .htaccess, and also the url of your blog, if you do not want to share it publicly, you can pm me

 

I'd posted

in .htaccess and that was it. I've renamed the .htaccess file back to 1.htaccess file for the moment, so you won't be able to see the error, but the blog is linked in my first post

 

This is what i have put in my htaccess

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

I cant post urls yet but if you see my website on the right simply replace www with blog

Thanks

 

can you try to replace that
RewriteBase / to
RewriteBase /blog

 

kitty,
please use this instead on .htaccess file
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

and your WP admin->Settings->Permalink->under custom setting, click custom structure and place this code /%category%/%postname%/

 

brilliant. Thank you very much!

kiteguy123 make sure the htaccess isnt a text file when you save it. delete the .txt and save it as all files on the drop down menu

 

Thanks, all sorted now! Repped everyone who helped

I'd named it properly and it had the right extension, I'd just put the wrong thing in the .htaccess file Anyway, all sorted now

 

great, but the site is still not loading for me.