How do I create search engine safe URLs in Wordpress? .: Netfirms 24/7 Support

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

How do I create search engine safe URLs in Wordpress?

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