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That's even better since I haven't decided on a permalink format yet! Thanks for your reply Ric. Frank

Changed .htaccess to read only seems to have corrected the problem. Thanks

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?