Deadly Bloody Serious

If your directory permissions start off a little too tight, Wordpress might start off with an empty .htaccess file. The first symptom I noticed was 404 results on archives and comments. After much random browsing, I blundered across this solution:

• Visit the Permalink options page (Options > Permalinks)
• Hit the Update Permalink Structure button
• Observe “You should update your .htaccess now” message at the top of the page
• Express great frustration that you’re not being told with what you should update .htaccess now
• Scroll down to the bottom of the page
• Thwack self on forehead

I might still try out Justin Blanton’s Smart Archives plugin, but at least now I’ve got the archives — and comments — working.

Okay, I give up. After a good decade of good natured heckling from Alastair that I obviously wasn’t cut out to either maintain a blogging system hand-carved out of rare wood or hand-carve a brand new blogging system out of less rare wood, I’ve told Stilgherrian to give up on my Django install and revert my configuration to its default so I can use WordPress instead.