magelly7

Thanks, that helps. I’m new to WordPress, and I was surprised by a lot of the attitude I quickly found looking in the fora to solve an installation problem seemingly not covered in the documentation. I’m afraid I responded to something before reading your note (I’m used to more friendly fora!).

But it appears that even questions that follow the rules can get blasted here. I think some people have been looking at code for too long!

I’m working in WordPress 2.2.3, which was supplied to me by my web host — I’m gradually changing stuff and will upgrade as I learn more about this system, finding out about directory paths and all that.

I also didn’t get a .htaccess file in the installation, which puzzled me, as it’s mentioned in the ‘simple’ instructions, but just glossed over as something that existed. I had no problems with the blog installation until I tried to change the permalink format. After that, the system couldn’t find any of the files on the server, and I couldn’t publish! Luckily I remembered what I had changed, and finally found the purpose of the mysterious missing file.

Read a very rude note in another thread which told me to manually create a blank file with that name.

When you’re trying to learn this terminology, they could make the whole thing a little more friendly to newcomers. I’m not totally computer illiterate, but have never encountered PHP or SQL. Dealing with all of this is not as easy as the advertising says!

Oh yeah, which directory should the blank .htaccess file go into?