Permalinks/Pretty links aren't working on my site

Question

I have kind of a complicated setup. When you go to my website you can see that on the menu bar each place is Home|Blog|Forum ... etc. Each of those are part of rewrite rules. IE: Blog is actually index.php?page=blog.php FWIW in my code i wrote it so it hides the .php of those files.

So, going to my Blog section, where wordpress resides you will see that it does indeed display the default setup for wordpress. I know the page formatting is off, but that is because i'm trying to fix this first.

Here is my wordpress .htaccess

Options +FollowSymlinks +Includes +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch +ExecCGI -MultiViews -Indexes
<files .htaccess>
   Order allow,deny
   Deny from all
</files>

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

If you click "Read More" in the page post, it redirects you to /admin/hello-world/ but the redirection is a 404 not found. I dunno why this is.

Your help will be much appreciated and will save the other half of my hair that is left on my head. :D

-Jon

Answer 1

All i had to change, which was so stupidly simple, was my wordpress .htaccess file to this.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ../index.php?page=blog [L,NC]
</IfModule>

A few issues remain unanswered but i'm calling this an answer to my main question about getting Pretty Permalinks working with my site.