b2evolution 2.4.1 allows you to select what your URLs are to look like, by choosing either “param” or “extra-path”. I was experiencing a problem on one of my servers that none of the “extra-path” urls were functioning and I was repeatedly getting 404 errors. Even after enabling the sample.htacess file, I would still get the errors.

Now I don’t have all the answers… cause I know nothing about server settings and all that stuff… but this is what worked for me.

Another one of my blogs used php5, and I never had a problem with the “extra-path", the pretty or clean urls as some people call them. I noticed that this other blog was using php4… I wondered if that was the culprit. I went to my server admin panel and upgraded to php5 and low and behold, all my pretty urls worked beautifully!

If you are having trouble getting your extra-path or pretty urls to work, try to see if upgrading to php5 will help.