Troubleshooting »

Today I had to re-install my blog (online digital interactive journal) because I chose a hosting plan with a windows operating system that did not support a search engine friendly feature in my Wordpress application. I had it up & running fine yesterday, except for the category, archives and post pages. They were resolving with “The page cannot be displayed” error. I thought these issues were domain name related because I had built this site before pointing the domain. After further investigation, I found out this wasn’t the case. It actually had to do with a feature called “permalinks” and the creation of these links using a technique called “mod rewrite”. I have provided the definitions to these new words for you below.

Definition: Blog

An online diary; a personal chronological log of thoughts published on a Web page; also called Weblog, Web log

Definition: Mod Rewrite