If you want to use permalinks in your Wordpress blog, you have to enable mod_rewrite in your .htaccess file.

To create and modify .htaccess file:

1. Log on to your control panel at www.register365.com and log into the hosting plan you wish to manage.
2. Click on Ftp user account on top menu bar
3. Click on File manager.
4. Click on Settings, at bottom right hand corner, make sure the option view hidden files is ticked.
5. Click on the folder icon beside the domain name, on the right hand side you will see an option to create a htaccess file
• if this is already created, you do not need to complete anything
• if this does not exist, click on create htaccess file
6. Click on the domain name folder.
7. you will see a .htaccess file here
8. Click on .htaccess file name and click on edit.
9. Copy the code below into it:

      
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
</IfModule>  

NOTE: /blog/ is a directory name where you got your blog. IMPORTANT: mod_rewrite works only on Unix Hosting.

Note: This is not available on Windows Hosting as mod_rewrite is Apache module.

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