adrianhon

Ah! I managed to figure out the problem, so I’ll recount it here:

If you have having this problem, your domain has likely been set by Dreamhost to run PHP as CGI. They do this as a security measure, but it’s a real pain in the ass. Go to the control panel in Dreamhost and turn it off. When you turn it off, Dreamhost will change the chmod settings of all your files – they mean well, but they don’t tell you, and that’s another pain.

Now, open up an FTP client and chmod *all* of the files in the wordpress/ directory to 755, including all subdirectories and files inside.

Make sure that your .htaccess file is in the same place as your index.php file – this may not be the same directory as wordpress/! Do not make the same mistake I did and put it in your wordpress directory – it’s not supposed to be there. The .htaccess file should be chmoded 666.

This *will* make permalinks work.

Here is my .htaccess file. This is for /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ :

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c><br />
RewriteEngine On<br />
RewriteBase /<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d<br />
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [S=38]<br />
RewriteRule ^feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?&feed=$1 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?&feed=$1 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?&paged=$1 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^comments/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?&feed=$1&withcomments=1 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^comments/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?&feed=$1&withcomments=1 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^comments/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?&paged=$1 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^author/([^/]+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^author/([^/]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^author/([^/]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?author_name=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^author/([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?author_name=$1 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&feed=$4 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&feed=$4 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&paged=$4 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&feed=$3 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&feed=$3 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&paged=$3 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?year=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/?$ /index.php?year=$1 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([^/]+)/trackback/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&tb=1 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([^/]+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&feed=$5 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([^/]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&feed=$5 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([^/]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&paged=$5 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([^/]+)(/[0-9]+)?/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&page=$5 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([^/]+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&feed=$4&name=$3 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([^/]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&feed=$4&name=$3 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([^/]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&name=$3&paged=$4 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([^/]+)(/[0-9]+)?/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&name=$3&page=$4 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([^/]+)/trackback/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&tb=1&name=$3 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([^/]+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&feed=$3&name=$2 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([^/]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&feed=$3&name=$2 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([^/]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?year=$1&name=$2&paged=$3 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([^/]+)(/[0-9]+)?/?$ /index.php?year=$1&name=$2&page=$3 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([^/]+)/trackback/?$ /index.php?year=$1&tb=1&name=$2 [QSA,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /wp-htaccess.php [L]<br />
</IfModule>