Check out this thread:

http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=1564&highlight=modrewrite

Thanks for your reply. I've read this thread and tried the proposed solution without any hell, it's very confusing for a new b2-user

I would be glad to try and walk you through this. Can you post your url so I can see what you have? And could you also describe what you want the final result to be. Do you have several blogs? Do you want permalinks to look like this:

http://www.brendoman.com/dbc/2005/07/08/gizmo
http://www.brendoman.com/houseofslug/2005/07/04/war_of_the_worlds

I did that using stub files and the link I gave you. If that's what you want, then I can help you set it up. If not, then let me know what you would like and I'll take a crack at it.

Yes, that's what it should be like. Maybe one should have a simple permalink-guide / tutorial on b2's website because this is something that may be of interest for many other users, too. By now, you have to search through the forums with many proposed and later corrected versions, often not well enough explained for beginners.

I have lots of entries in three blogs in three languages that I want to move to b2. The new blogs are not public yet, I might send you a PM later today or tomorrow. Thanks for your help!

PS: An easy understandable tutorial on permalinks for categories would also be very useful!

I'm working on a howto for this. Maybe you can help me make sure it's easy to follow. What do you mean by category permalinks?

I have a problem. The permalink fix I use requires stub files. That works fine for all of our hostee blogs, but the main blog uses index.php in the web root. I haven't found a good way to get rid of 'index.php' from the permalinks of the that blog. That makes me think that this isn't really a fix that's worth writing a howto about. But if you want to use it for your blogs, just create stub files and put them in the web root rather than creating a folder (e.g., news) and putting an index.php stub in it. Make sure you can get to your blog using domain.com/news.php, then go to the .htaccess file in your web root and add this [url=http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?p=19302#19302]code[/url]:

RewriteEngine On

# If we have an .html file for the bare subject (no extra path, no query string), use it:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html  -s
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$
RewriteRule ^(all|blog|linkblog|click)/?$  $1.html

# If the subject/extrapath does not match an existing file, call b2evo!
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteRule ^(all|blog|linkblog|click)(/.*)?$  $1.php

Where it says (all|blog|linkblog|click) you'll want to put the names of your stub files (leave off the .php). This rewrite code basically says that if a browser asks for domain.com/news, it will serve news.php. So try it in your browser. If domain.com/news shows your blog, then go into the backoffice and remove the .php from the name of your stub file. Now your permalinks should be nice.

Hey cool! Thanks! Category permalinks = clean permalinks like f.ex www.domain.com/blog/category/music

I know other people have asked about that, but I haven't seen any solutions for it yet. By the way, I think the upcoming major update to b2evolution will do a much better job of handling urls, permalinks, etc. This hack may not be necessary after the new version is released.

Ok, then let's wait for the next release. This is something that is much better handled by Wordpress in the admin-interface. Takes less than three minutes and it works - even the .htacess is created automatically. Have tested it tonight and using different categories for different blogs might be a workaround for not having multiple blogs in Wordpress

Yes, that would probably work just fine. Keep in mind that most users probably don't pay any attention to your permalinks, and when they do, the index.php in the middle may not bother them at all.

Yes, you might be right. But search engines do. And most important - the links are really permanent (at least the categories) in case I should move to another blog script (one never knows). Right now with my old and simple blog script, my permalinks are like index.php?id=42af43a9a5c9a

Isaac has done it, but it was too much hassle for me to bother with. And as far as I'm aware (we did SEO in one of my modules at university), google and the other major search engines don't put as much emphasis on the actual url, but rather the link pointing at the url and the content on the page.

Anyway, if you really feel the need to do it, here's how

http://isaacschlueter.com/blog/clean_category_links