Wordpress - Permalinks - Friendly Urls?

[bober]

Hi,

I've be trying yo create 'friendly' urls for my site? BUT keep getting a 404 page fault everything time I try! Any have any advise on this, I need 'friendly' urls for page & categories. Image attached of what I'm doing, thanks.

I've tried lots of variants but but it's not working out! so annoying.!

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[mneylon]

Do you have a blank .htaccess in the web root CHMOD 666 (ie. writable via the server)

OR

Have you manually created a .htaccess with the rewrite rules that WP is giving you?

 

[Kieran]

Try /index.php/%postname%/

The particular install may demand this depending on the path of the overall installation.

 

[php.allstar]

To elaborate on blacknight's post, you should have a .htaccess file in your root directory with these entries:

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

# END WordPress