Gah, spent the better part of this beautiful afternoon getting Wordpress’ permalinking feature to place nice with Apache 2.2 on Debian Etch. Every time I turned on Permalinking, I’d get a 403 Forbidden error when trying to view the blog, and going back to the Permalinking options page resulted in a /wp-admin/options-permalink.php 403: Forbidden error as well. After some Googling and messing around with my Apache config files, I realized that Wordpress was creating a .htaccess file with permissions of 600, when they need to be 644 in order for the web server to see it (I run Apache with suphp, so PHP code is executed as my own user, not www-data). A quick chmod 644 .htaccess later, and the EveKnows Blog is back up and running!

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