NutsAndBolts

Oh well, I wiped out the database and started afresh. Back to the original link format and all is working again. Now the real work starts, I need to figure out how to use it so I can teach the actual users about the basics.

Thank you all for your help so far.

Hi esmi, the answer is probably not. I searched about mod_rewrite. I am supposed to add these to my virtual host def, which I did:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteOptions Inherit

will that do it? if so how do I go about having the pages show up now?

Thanks,
Frank

Thank you kionae, after some struggle with installing phpmyadmin on my Mac I managed to get wordpress working! ??

Then I decided to use a different style permalink and selected year/month/day format. Now I cannot view any page I add. It says page not found and the short link resolves (such …?p=15) to the year/month… format leading to 404 also. And it seems I cannot get back to the previous link settings. How do I get the year/moth format working, failing that how do I get back to the original settling? Please help!

Thanks Samuel B. But I am not using MAMP. I already have my server configured for a number of virtual hosts and I do not want to re-do all that with MAMP.

I need instructions on how to prepare mysql database and another detail I need is, is it 127.0.0.1:3306 for mysql host or just localhost, or 127.0.0.1? I tried all and none worked for me. My guess is I need to create a database before I can Set up WP. Is that correct and if so are there step by step instructions on how to do that?