To create search-engine friendly URL's for your website created in WordPress, please follow these steps:
1. Login to the Netfirms Control Panel at https://controlpanel.netfirms.com 2. Click Site Tools
3. Click WordPress
4. For the WordPress installation you need to configure search-engine friendly URL's, click Admin
2. Click Options
3. Click Permalinks
4. Enter the structure using the appropriate tags
5. Click Update Permalink Structure
NOTE: WordPress v2.0 has reported issues with WordPress v2.0 Permalinks and PHP 5. Therefore we suggest that you activate PHP version 4 from your Netfirms Control Panel if you wish to use WordPress permalinks.
For more information about Wordpress permalinks, please browse directly to the Wordpress website.
Below is a sample of the coding that should appear in your .htaccess file when you have configured permalinks for your Wordpress (where wordpress_directory is the directory where you installed Wordpress to):
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress_directdory/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index.php
RewriteRule (.*) /wordpress_directory/index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Or, if your Wordpress site was installed to the root folder so it is accessed via http://www.yourdomain.com
only, your
.htaccess file would look like the following:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index.php
RewriteRule (.*) /index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress