[itdiscuss] WordPress and permlinks

[Dayron Daugherty]

Hello,

  I'm not a regular WordPress admin so this may be a simple question to
those who use it.

 

I have a site (hosted in a LAMP environment) that does not have
permlinks enabled and no .htaccess file. 

When I enable permlinks Wordpress creates the .htaccess file.

I can then browse to http://website/friendly-name if I type the specific
URL 

However, if I just type the base URL http://website I get a bank browser
page and the forever spinning icon indicating the page is loading...but
never does. I can then disable permlinks and the site works fine again. 

 

I have other sites (not wordpress) hosted on the same server using
search engine friendly URLs so mod_rewrite is for sure enabled on the
server. 

Any clue as to why permlinks work when tying the URL directly but then
the base URL for the site doesn't load?

 

 

 

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