Permalink Frustations
After countless hours of grinding through code and documentation, I FINALLY managed to get permalinks working.? Before I reveal the horrible secret, I’ll first give some background on the steps to reach it.? I was trying to get stats working with podpress.? I even went as far as modifying the php code just to get things to work (which they did).? But the workaround seemed so awkward that I decided I must figure out why permalinks are not working!? I went through even step of the documentation, but in the end it turns out that I had done everything right.? There was just a single (load bearing) piece missing, that is, enabling the damn module.? It would seem that Ubuntu’s apache install does not enable rewrite by default.? Not that this is a bad thing, but I’m surprised that it had not been documented anywhere.? I mean comon, I can’t be the only ubuntu user of wordpress who wanted permalinks to work…. am I?
It’s nearly 4am, time for (ugh) sleep.