[helga]

I can open my WordPress folder and access the .thaccess file by opeining it in my notepad if that is what you mean by writing to the file.

[helga]

but… if I put /%category%/%postname% in permalinks-custom the sites go “not found”

[helga]

It worked just fine untill I installed BuddyPress.
First I tried to use buddypress approved themes (not BP themes) but they looked really bad. Pages would load normally but none of the BP functions would.
Then I switched to BP themes and after that nothing has loaded properly apart from the first page.

-deactivated BuddyPress plugin
-changed Permalinks to default
….and everything works beautifully, except for Buddy Press (which is no longer active).

[helga]

Wouldn’t call it hijacking. I have the exact same problem as cristina.
-permalink structure, done without any result (just like cristina)
-putting index.php infront of pages, members, groups and other functions finds the pages but all links are broken (as above)
I can’t get the permalinks to work and I don’t understand how I give localhost (there is no ftp involved) access to the htaccess file. Maybe I should post a different thread. “Can’t make sense from thread “The requested URL /groups/ was not found on this server.” Sry. but you do sound harsh.

[helga]

If anyone could give me an idiot proof step by step guide to how to fix this, I would be so grateful.

[helga]

If anyone could give me an idiot proof step by step guide to how to fix this, I would be so grateful.

[helga]

I have the exact same problem as cristina.
running wp 3.0.1. on localhost (using WAMP to run it) with several different BP enabled themes (I blamed the themes at first) but no matter what the theme the permalink structure and the Buddy press seem to collide giving me the ever popular “Not Found The requested URL….was not found on this server.”

I am not very computer literate. The htaccess file is in the root
# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]
# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ – [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

# END WordPress

But what I am ever going to do with it?
index.php is also in the root and like .htaccess I have no idea what it says in it.
<?php
/**
* Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn’t do anything, but loads
* wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
*
* @package WordPress
*/

/**
* Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
*
* @var bool
*/
define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);

/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);
?>”