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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.