mod rewrite
If you want to enable wordpress’ permalinks, it’s actually quite simple. Instead of displaying: http://birdchan.com/home/?p=2034 you can have it displayed as: http://birdchan.com/home/2011/05/25/mod-rewrite/ 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 ...