Problems with permalinks

  • I have all of my WordPress files set up at: https://www.launchpadmedia.com/blog/

    I am trying to use the following format for permalinks:

    Date and name based
    https://www.launchpadmedia.com/blog/2007/07/22/sample-post/

    Example posts:
    https://www.launchpadmedia.com/blog/2007/07/22/test-permalink/
    https://www.launchpadmedia.com/blog/2007/07/22/permalink-test-3/

    However, I consistently receive the following errors:

    Not Found
    The requested URL /blog/2007/07/22/test-permalink/ was not found on this server.

    Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

    I made sure to change the permissions on my .htaccess file to 666 when making my permalink selection. I did this via FTP, as I do not know how to work in a UNIX terminal.

    I even took the step of uploading a blank file to .htaccess to start over. This is the code that appears in my .htaccess file, written by WordPress when I selected the permalink format:

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

    # END WordPress

    I am wondering if WordPress is giving me the wrong path in that code or something.

    When I revert back to the default permalink format, everything works (post and comment links all work fine), but I do not wish to remain in that link format. I have been reading support and blog posts on this topic for over 3 hours trying to find a solution to this problem, but I just do not know what I am doing wrong. HELP!

    I am running WordPress 2.2.1, PHP 4.3.2, and MySQL 4.1.15.

    THANK YOU!

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  • On Godaddy or secureserver linux hosting accounts, before messing with .htaccess try this:

    Go to the Customize Permalink Structure page. Where it says “Custom, specify below” put in the following:
    /archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

    I put up my first blog a month ago with pretty permalinks, AOK, beautiful https://www.fredscostaricablog.com/. Now spent two days with these problems trying to put up another two of them, EXACTLY the same specs. I even copied over the good one, and it wouldn’t work. Decided the only difference was the first was in the home directory of the domain, and these two were in sub-directories (on another domain). I moved one of them to the home directory on the second domain, without change. AND IT WORKED!
    That’s it! I don’t have time to set that all up and test it again.

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