Win 7- Wamp -WordPress-Filezilla configured accordingly - Permalinks still won't work?

Question

hello, I hope some one can help me, I have done everything I can think of and still I get the same problem.

I followed this to install wordpress on wamp.

http://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/installing-a-local-server/installing-wampserver/#4-1-php-configuration.

I checked re-write module and looked in the http.conf to confirm it was un-hashed.

Also, it appears WordPress creates a .htaccess file automatically in the wp folder and this is its contents:

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

I set permalinks http://mywpsite//%postname%/ and it still throws up a 404 not found page

"Not Found
The requested URL /about/ was not found on this server."

In terms of setting permissions, chmod .htaccess, I am on a windows 7 and use FileZilla to transfer files to and from my host. CHMOD is a command used on UNIX OS which means it's not supported on Windows. If i try to change the permission using filezilla, I get the "504 command not implemented for that parameter" message. Aside from chmodding .htaccess, I don't know any other way of changing its permissions.

I am totally beside myself because I simply cannot get my permalinks to work.

I would really appreciate any help.

Answer 1

You saved on the permalinks page, correct? Also make sure your permissions are correct on the htaccess file, and try with localhost as suggested.

Answer 2

The content of your .htaccess file appears to be correct.



In FileZilla, you CHMOD using the "file permissions..." option when you right click on a file or folder on the remote system.

Answer 3

Might be a dumb question, but isn't every link supposed to start with "localhost", as in



http://localhost/mywpsite/%postname%/



Or did you use mywpsite as a placeholder?