Today, i did an wordpress installation for one of my client on a lighttpd server. Every thing was fine in the installation, blog got installed successfully. It was a nice experience working on a new control panel (Lxadmin), but the thing that made me restless was the permalink issue that i got when i tried to customize the url’s to http://example.com/%postname%/. It was displaying the permalink with index.php attached to it like http://example.com/index.php/%postname%/. If i removes index.php from the blogs permalink settings, it returns me with and error page 404 on the post pages. Moreover, i had a commitment that need to be completed in time. I did a lot of search about it and was presented with very useful and detailed solutions to my problem. There were some great explanation’s from sudhakar and chrisjohnston to them.
But i was hunting for something more easier, that could be done more easily, and surprisingly i found the solution in the Lxadmin panel itself. The Lxadmin panel comes with a pre-configured permalink solution for wordpress and drupal.
Lxadmin comes with default permalink configuration for many apps. Please select the application and the directory where you have installed it, and lxadmin will add the corresponding rewrite rule into the lighty configuration. Please note that for some applications, permalinks are achieved via setting the 404 error handler, for instance wordpress.
Here is what you have to do for reaching the solution:
- Login in into your Lxadmin panel.
- Browse to script and select permalink.
Screenshot hilighting the permalink location in lxadmin panel
- Select the domain, location and the application ( only wordpress and drupal are supported, currently).
Descriptional Screenshot of the fix
In the last go to your wordpress dashboard> settings> permalinks> and make the changes for customization, things will absolutely act finely.
Lxadmin panel’s such powerful and light weight functions can help the blogger’s to focus on their writing skills, rather than hunting and looking for solution to their solutions. It just functions like another wordpress plugin provided in the lxadmin panel.
New blog post: Lxadmin's default permalink configuration for wordpress http://bit.ly/3pot9c
it look complicated, luckily I never have problem with wordpress permalink.
@ izzat aziz
if you are new to liphttpd and lxadmin than its really complicated. But now there is a solution introduced for wordpress and drupal in the panel itself.
All my posts have index.php in the link. Though I wanted to change it, I am no longer planning to do so now, since many of my pages are already indexed
@ John you can do that easily, without even loosing the indexed pages. All you need is to tweek the .htaccess file in your cpanel.
But, proceed only if you are sure of doing it cleanly.