My Experience with Installing WordPress
May 14th, 2007
I was pleasantly surprised with how easy it was to install a WordPress blog to my server. I use GoDaddy for hosting. The only problem I encountered during the installation was when I wanted to change my permalink structure.
The problem arose when I switched from “ugly permalinks” (http://example.com/?p=N) to “pretty permalinks” (http://example.com/year/month/day/post-name). I already had a .htaccess file in my root directory, but when switching permalink stuctures, WordPress attempts to write it’s own .htaccess file. Since mine was already in place, it failed and I started getting 404 errors on every pages except the home page.
Jeremy Blanchard: Student, Nerd, Enviro-geek
