perhaps someone can help me out.
I'm running wordpress on XAMPP, I want to develop a new site on localhost before I publish to the web. When I change the permalink settings to anything except default the site and dashboard both crash, I get Server Error 500.
I've searched the forums and found that if I delete the .htaccess file the site comes back and error goes away.
Is there a way that I can solve this problem properly and use 'pretty permalinks'? I've seen that I might need to edit httpd.conf but I'm not sure what this is or how to do it.
I am quite new to using XAMPP please don't assume I am an expert or anything!
here's my .htaccess if that helps:
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# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /xampp/yak-shak-mickyholmes/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /xampp/yak-shak-mickyholmes/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Thanks for the help.... Besten Dank!
Michael
[EDIT by Altrea: moved to the english part of the board]