Hi, I have been setting up a few wordpress sites (under different alias's)..... the first set up fine, change the permalinks to /%postname%/ with no problems. However ..... On the other 2 blogs, after I set up with /%postname%/ as a custom permalink, when I click on a link in the blog, I get a 404's. All have their own URL's, but are hosted alias's. Any ideas???? Thanks in advance.
Have you checked wether the other 2 blogs have a .htaccess file? Maybe one couldn't of been created automaticly by wordpress and you have to do it manually.
it had not created for blog 2 & 3, the 1st blog had one .... copied the 1st blogs .htaccess to 2 & 3, however said it existed (when it did not) but copied it anyway .... but still 404's
Make sure in your FTP program you have hidden files enabled. .htaccess is a hidden file and you usually cannot see it. Once you have done this, set the CHMOD on it to 777 and setup your permalinks again. This way Wordpress will re-write to them and hopefully fix everything up.
I think you need to upload a blank .htaccess and then set your permalink settings. Wordpress with handle the rest. Nigel
Agreed Zeldaze, that reminds me, I need to switch mine back. I had to sort this issue out yesterday. Nigel
Yea. And there are also other plugin that I am using that need to write to the .htaccess file so I had to chmod it to 777 for many of my plugins. Same goes for robots.txt. CupaVid hopefully Nigel Lew's information and mine can help you out. I am looking forward to hearing your results!