[wp-hackers] Help needed with two issues on established WP install

[Vogel, Andrew (vogelap)]

You may not be "Captain Obvious"... 

<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
</Directory>

What SHOULD it be? "All"?

-andrew vogel
Manager of Professional Programs
University of Cincinnati
College of Pharmacy 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com 
> [mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Handy
> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 11:38 AM
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Help needed with two issues on 
> established WP install
> 
> On 8/21/06, Vogel, Andrew (vogelap) <VOGELAP at ucmail.uc.edu> wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > 2. I've got my Permalinks set to Custom ("Almost Pretty") and 
> > "/index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/". The goal 
> is to get 
> > rid of the "/index.php" from my permalinks to make them 
> "Pretty". As 
> > long as I do not visit Options->Permalinks, my site 
> functions as expected.
> > However, if I VISIT Options->Permalinks, my site's permalinks stop 
> > functioning unless I set them to Default (I don't even have 
> to click 
> > "Update Permalinks Settings"; simply visiting the 
> Options->Permalinks 
> > page breaks permalinks), which breaks internal links in my 
> site. This 
> > is 100% reproducible. The .htaccess file is 664 and 
> writable by the server.
> >
> > </snip>
> >
> 
> I'm willing to be all wet here with the "Captain Obvious" 
> post... but FC5 has AllowOverrides off by default in the 
> apache configs.  Have you specifically re-enabled it?
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