Sorry, but WordPress absolutely does generate an .htaccess file for certain permalink settings: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalink...y.22_permalinks http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalink...malink_Problems Perhaps you have a setting that prevents them from being viewable. Or perhaps you haven't changed the permalink settings? I'm sorry, I didn't follow up with the version (latest), hosting (several virtual host entries), or the resolution of the IPv4-IPv6 difficulty (because there wasn't one). Everything has been running fine for months on this Windows 7 computer (using "localhost"), with the exception of the "MySQL server has gone away" error that I get occasionally for no good reason that I can think of. I restart it, and it's fine. The problem was with the .htaccess file that was generated by WP when I changed the permalink settings. I found it in C:\ -- not in any of the Uniform Server www directories, including the one WP was installed in -- deleted it, and the problem was solved. As I mentioned earlier, I had this exact same problem several years ago, on an XP computer, and it was resolved the same way -- finding and deleting the .htaccess file that was in a place it had no business being, and that appeared after the WP permalinks settings were changed. I'm pretty sure if I had written a complicated piece of work such as that, I'd remember it. But you know, as we get older, things get away from us. :-D I'm sure if you Google about it, you'll find other instances where it's been a problem for people. And I'm sure of that because that would have been how I found the solution to the problem the first time. :-)