That worked

I had been trying to get a friendly URL for this blog with many tries and since it has been a little while I sorta forgot it.

What I usually do is once I have loaded WordPress I go to the Option panel and click the “Permalink” then post this code (/%postname%/) at the “custom structure” field. Then I would go into the main page and click the “Hello World”, but I had been getting a 404 page and down at the bottom of the Permalinks it has a code for the .htacess file that I could copy to make the .htacess file. It says something like ” If you we have permission we could do this for you. In another words if I uploaded an .htaccess file in the root directory and set the permission to 777 it will write the code for me, but since it had a code what I did was copy the code and paste it into a text editor and saved it as .htacess file and uploaded into the root directory.

I then get the 500 internal server error after that instead, so I deleted WordPress and reinstall. Again I tried another thing, same thing, then I realize that after creating the Permalinks structure and I went to read the already built-in post, that post was from the previous link structure therefore it no longer existed and thus I get the 404 cannot be found page.

I been through this before, Wish that WordPress would have said “Create a blank text file and name that text file .htaccess, then uploaded into your server and give permission to 777″ That would have save time.

Funny on most install I usually do not come across this situation, but I guess this depends on the host your hosting with.

Any how, as you can see I have the friendly URL now and I wont mind giving a little tips for future use if you decide to install WordPress.

After installing Wordpress do this first, go to:

1. Create a blank text file and name it “.htacess” (without the “qoute” and with the dot in the begging)
2. Go to Option, Permalinks
3. Then Custom Structure at the last option.
4. Paste this code (/%postname%/) without the ( )
5. Click Save Changes
6. Create a Category
7. Start posting

That should do it:)

Man, that was about a bitch! that I went to, when such a simple thing gone wrong. Hope you find this useful.

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