Make sure your .htaccess in your blogs main directory has write permissions (777). If not, change it to have the 77 permissions using FTP, make your permalink changes and then change the .htaccess file permissions back to 644.

WordPress need to be able to write to this file for your permalinks to work correctly.

I hope this helps, let me know.

David Porter

I have the same problem with a new install, permalinks show file not found and my magic quotes are set to off ??? still no luck

Well, the magic_quotes stuff mentioned in the post above wouldn’t be in your .htaccess file by default. It’s something you would have to add yourself manually.

FIRST, I would like you to try something for me if you could though.

If you can, please FTP into your blog domain and change the permissions on your .htaccess file to 777 (all boxes checked). Then, go back into your blog admin and change your permalink settings again and see if it works. If it does, change the .htaccess file permissions back to 644 (rows down left to right – 2 checked, 1 checked, 1 checked).

Come back here and post again letting me know if it worked for you.

If you don’t know how to change file permissions, you should be able to do with whatever file manger your hosting service provides, or be able to get your hosting service to make the change as a temporary thing for you.

Let me know how it goes!

David Porter

Thanks for the info…

I’m in the process of launching a new blog. Using WP 2.7.

I just installed a new plugin and one of the prerequisites is to use anything but default permalinks. So, I went into the admin portion of my site and changed my permalinks to one of the other options. Saved the setting change, and BAM… No other pages work. Change the setting back to default and everything is good again…

In regards to your solution (thought it might solve my issue), I looked at the .htaccess file in my root directory. I see nothing pertaining to magic_quotes. Am I missing something? Also, which file is the PHP configuration file?

Sorry – pretty new to wordpress. Your assistance is greatly appreciated.

Brian

I’m in the process of launching a new blog. Using WP 2.7.

I just installed a new plugin and one of the prerequisites is to use anything but default permalinks. So, I went into the admin portion of my site and changed my permalinks to one of the other options. Saved the setting change, and BAM… No other pages work. Change the setting back to default and everything is good again…

In regards to your solution (thought it might solve my issue), I looked at the .htaccess file in my root directory. I see nothing pertaining to magic_quotes. Am I missing something? Also, which file is the PHP configuration file?

Sorry – pretty new to wordpress. Your assistance is greatly appreciated.

Brian

Yes this is true.

It was a plugin that was causing the issue (Feedburner feed stats & submit your site, plugins). Was a good excuse to clean up all of the plugins I wasn’t really using though

Thanks again.

It looks fine now

Thanks for commenting and thanks for the heads up.

Not a good thing to have an error on a wordpress blog when the blogs title is “WordPress Master”

I’ll get on it right away. Looks like it might be a Google Feeds thing though, but I’ll find out.

Thanks again.

UPDATE:
Looks like I figured it out (rss not working). Was a plugin issue. Thanks again.

By the way, your feed isn’t working, there’s an issue with some line with the xml format, need a check or change the redirection at feedburner