Wordpress woes [edit... success]

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

I have changed permalinks in wordpress to be pretty. What immediately resulted was a 403: Forbidden.

Well, what really happens when you change permalinks is that wordpress creates a .htaccess file to do some URL re-writing. But often apache security does not allow re-writes, due to FollowSymLinks not being enabled… Don’t ask.. The magic incantation is to add “Options +FollowSymLinks” to that wordpress generated .htaccess file, at the start preferebly.

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