Question

I have a relatively new wordpress installation on http://tallytree.com. I tried to change permalink today to make it nicer. However when I use

/%postname%/

as permalink and applied. WordPress wrote this to .htaccess in the root of my blog:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Now when I click on a post header on my blog I get an apache 404 error. I went ahead and changed the permalink to this custom structure:

/index.php/%postname%/

Now it works. But my URLs have an index.php in them for example:
http://tallytree.com/index.php/comparing-a-few-force-directed-layout-implimentations/

How can I setup the permalink so that index.php does not have to be in the URL?

Answer 1

Set the custom structure in WordPress’ Permalinks page to: /%category%/%postname%/

WordPress should write this to the .htaccess file:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

index.php will not show up in the url. If this works, you can then change the custom structure to /%postname%/