Wordpress Permalinks Questions

Hi there, i've been searching, but not had much luck in actually solving my problem.

I want to use the permalink "/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/" on my wordpress blog, but i get 404's.

Just answer a few questions before i get them, yes i have mod_rewrite, yes wordpress can write to my .htaccess file, yes allowoverides is set to all.

My .htaccess file looks like this

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

# END WordPress

Code (markup):

That's the one generated by wordpress. Any clues on how to solve this?

 

Do you get an error message when you set the permalink structure in the WP admin panel?

 

Nope, but coincidentally, whatever permalink i set. IT generates the same htaccess file..

Using 2.5 if that's anything to do with it.

 

The htaccess looks normal.

I've heard of a couple errors like that with 2.5 though... I can't say what the problem is though.

 

you need to change permissions on your .htaccess file

change it (chmod) to 666 so that it is writable

 

It's already set to 666, wordpress doesn't have a problem writing to the file

 

Here is the contents of my file:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(stats|failed_auth\.html)/?(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [L]
</IfModule>
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Code (markup):

Maybe adding the lines you don't have in yours will solve your problem.

 

Ok sorted this now, somehow there was something wrong with the rewrite.load file in mods-enabled/

Deleted that file, copied it from mods-enabled/ reloaded apache and it all works now.

Thanks for all your help guys.