Permalink problem – not being set

  • Greetings,

    I have a problem similar to this topic, but can’t seem to find a solution for it.

    In short, my new WP (2.0.2 via Fantastico install on new domain) is not allowing me to set any permalink structure other than the default.

    Site: grumpasaurus.com
    Server: Apache
    mod_rewrite: yes

    The specific behavior is that in the options page, I can select any of the options (including custom), click “update permalinks”, with the script reporting “Permalink structure updated.” However, after “success”, the selected option is always the ugly permalink default.

    No .htaccess file is being created or written to in that site’s directory. I’ve created a blank one with 666 permissions and WP still does not write to it. I’ve copied my working .htaccess file from another (largely WP) domain on the same server, but still no success and no modification to the file. I have no idea what file WP thinks it is writing to, but wherever it is, it’s not in any directory I control.

    Any help you can provide on this would be most helpful.

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  • Is allow_overrides on?

    Thread Starter cmoore

    (@cmoore)

    yes

    Thread Starter cmoore

    (@cmoore)

    I’ve got a pseudo solution:

    I modified the WP database directly (updated permalink_structure to the format I wanted);
    created a .htaccess file that matched those options

    The site works now as I wanted it to, but I still cannot change the permalink structure from within the WP admin interface. If I go to the options-permalink page, it now recognizes my permalink choice (second option), but if I try to change anything, the page still reports success but does not actually update the database nor create the .htaccess file.

    It’s not ideal, but at least it’s working. Anyone have any ideas why this behavior would be happening?

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