I installed Wordpress 2.7.1 I imported a Blogger blog and comments.
So far, success - everything looks fine. BUT, when I try to change the permalinks to http://jahangiri.us/news/2009/06/sample-post/, and create an .htaccess file in the directory with index.php, containing the following lines (specified by WordPress):
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /news/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /news/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
the posts ONLY show on the front page of the blog. If I click the title or try to add a comment, I get a 404 error. I can still see posts and comments from the Dashboard; clearly, everything's still there.
However, if I remove .htaccess and switch back to "default" permalinks, everything works fine.
Any advice? This is quite frustrating. If it involves doing anything with the database, please use small words and straightforward declarative sentences; my knowledge of databases is...not extensive.
The blog is here: http://jahangiri.us/news