I'm using Uniform Server 3.5-Apollo on WinXPpro. Doing a test of Wordpress v2.6.1. Trying to create custom permalinks, which according to Wordpress codex http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks requires mod_rewrite enabled. When I change the permalink from default in WP I get 403 error message and I can't login into the admin panel, also an .htaccess file is created as follows:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
This error is in the Apache log file: As noted in previous posts on this issue I changed the .htaccess file to this:
# BEGIN WordPress
Options +FollowSymLinks
#Options -Indexes
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
I'm then able to log back in to the WP admin panel. However, when I change the permalink setting and save I get the 403 error again. Also .htaccess has been rewritten with Options +FollowSymLinks removed. Any suggestions on correcting this problem?