[@aturner Participant 15 years, 1 month ago]

Reply to:
hnla said 5 days, 18 hours ago:
“Ensure that you can write to / have a .htaccess file.”
It is not clear to me and other new users how to do this. Changing the options from the default is not enough. From this link it is not clear what we actually have to do: https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions

“Navigate to the WP permalinks section of the dashboard and ensure you have selected one of the options and saved,”
I chose the month and name option but unlike what the codex implies this is not an option and also not sufficient.

“what, if any, messages do you get after saving? if none are the links now working?”

This is the message I get:
Not Found
The requested URL /blog/groups/ 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 am completely stuck now. I think the codex needs to be revised so it is clear how to do this. “Ensure that you can write to / have a .htaccess file.”
The dashboard instructions when installing are not clear to me. I don’t know what to do with the code.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]

Thanks for your time.

[@aturner Participant 15 years, 2 months ago]

This message “If your .htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so these are the mod_rewrite rules you should have in your .htaccess file”

This page is not very user friendly for such a critical step in new installations for many new users. It is not clear how to allow .htaccess permision.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions

Can someone give me a simple paste this text: where? type screenshot. This link is not helpful https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]

It seems like using the default setting https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions is actually NOT an option:
“For core WordPress files, all should be writable only by your user account. However, if you utilize mod_rewrite Permalinks or other .htaccess features you should make sure that WordPress can also write to your /.htaccess file. “

I saved my permalink settings from the default to month and name. But that does not seem to be enough.

Can anyone help? This seems like it would be a common problem.