I am not sure whether you guys occur this problem or not. But I myself do. I am on a Linux based web hosting, I am not sure what’s the problem is, I’ve already solve it so I decided to share it with you guys.

When you are setting permalink in Wordpress blog. You will find 4 options, 3 is preset and the 4th is custom.

The first option is ugly permalink :

http://inicholas.net/?p=123

The second and third one is better :

• http://inicholas.net/index.php/2007/09/07/sample-post/
• http://inicholas.net/index.php/archives/123

Do you notices the index.php at the permalink there? At first, I thought it would be edited and deleted at the custom field. But then, if without the index.php, the permalink to all post will be directed to a 404 Error Page / Page Not Found.

I search and search and search the web and finally found a solution by editing/making a .htaccess file.

1. Open Notepad.
2. Copy and paste this codes# BEGIN WordPress
   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
   </IfModule>
   # END WordPress
3. Save as any file name.
4. Then rename it to .htaccess .
5. Last step, you can now delete the index.php at the custom field area of permalink setting.

Enjoy and good luck.