Permalinks Won't Work

Question

Permanents won't work for some reason. I click on the radio button for option 3, and click save, but it reverts back to option 1. What's going on?

(It shouldn't be a FTP problem - it has localhost access to the database, and I can download plugins within Wordpress fine.)

Wordpress can write .htaccess? Is .htaccess allowed on your web host?
I'm quite sure they are allowed, but when I first got the host setup, there was no .htaccess, and there was no .htaccess created when I installed Wordpress.
Any error from wordpress when setting the permalink? A message giving you a warning that It cannot write the .htaccess? Follow the advice of Chip Bennet below
There's no error at all - it just reverts back to the first radio button, instead of the 3rd that I want.

Chip Bennett · Answer 1 · 2011-09-10 16:29:41Z

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This is almost assuredly a file/directory permissions issue.

Try manually creating an empty .htaccess file, and giving it *644 permissions. Then see if WordPress can apply rewrite rules.

answered Sep 10 '11 at 16:29

Chip Bennett
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