Seems like when we reinstalled our img5 server we had forgotten to correctly configure the rewrites for WordPress. We run lighttpd and since lighty cannot parse .htaccess files (thank god for that since htaccess in Apache is a performance bog), it’s .htaccess file was never in effect.

For those who’re also on Lighty and want permanent links to work this is what you add to your lighty configuration. Mind you, this is for when your blog is hosted on the root of the domain or subdomain – without a subfolder to access.

url.rewrite = (
“^/(wp-.+).*/?” => “$0″,
“^/(sitemap.xml)” => “$0″,
“^/(xmlrpc.php)” => “$0″,
“^/(.+)/?$” => “/index.php/$1″
)

And of course you have to enable mod_rewrite in your module.

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