If you want to enable wordpress’ permalinks, it’s actually quite simple. Instead of displaying:
you can have it displayed as:
Picking the permalink format in the wordpress admin page is quite easy. The part that is a little tricky is on the server. Here are the steps:
1. If you have done it right, the .htaccess in your wordpress directory should look something like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /home/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /home/index.php [L]
2. Then check your apache conf file. I am using ubuntu apache2 so your mileage may vary. Make sure you see the following settings enabled in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
...
3. Then restart apache
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart