title: WordPress with Yahoo! Hosting... Almost there
body: <p><strong>EDIT:</strong></p>
  
  <p>Yeah, so this problem is really unsolvable.  Yahoo prevents access to .htaccess, even from WordPress itself trying to change it.  I had to settle for writing a script on the default homepage that redirects browsers to "www.abc.com/index.php" if they go straight to "www.abc.com".  You always have to deal with "index.php" being in the address bar but it's better than not having permalinks...</p>
  
  <p><strong>/EDIT</strong></p>
  
  <p>Yahoo! Small Business hosting seems specifically engineered to make WordPress difficult-- but it's my client's host and there's not much I can do about it.  I'm trying to move WordPress into the root directory, and I'm sooo close to having it done.</p>
  
  <p>I've read and read and read about how to get the Permalinks to work right, and since Yahoo! hosting doesn't let you modify htaccess I am pretty much up s*** creek.  I'm using the simple permalink structure of "/%postname%/", which once I moved to the root, stopped working.  I have changed it to "/index.php/%postname%/", which allows you to see the pages if you manually type in index.php before the page name or if you are logged into the admin area and "View Page".  Also, the correct permalink shows on all of the pages in the editor.</p>
  
  <p>However, WordPress doesn't let you change the permalink of the static page you use as the front page.  </p>
  
  <p>Long story short, if I go to "www.abc.com/index.php", the links in the menu all work fine.  However, if I just got to "www.abc.com", the links don't pick up the "index.php" from the permalink structure.  I need to fix this, so if anyone knows how to either:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>Change the permalink of the static front page</p></li>
  <li><p>Fix something in the database if I install PhpMyAdmin</p></li>
  <li><p>Work around not having access to .htaccess</p></li>
  <li><p>Put a small script somewhere on the index page to append "index.php" to the url</p></li>
  <li><p>Any other suggestions</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>It seems it would work if I was NOT using a static front page but rather the blog, but this isn't an option.  I've tried changing the "Tag base" setting to no avail, as well as deactivating the Yahoo! Custom Permalinks plugin (and reactivating it again after that failed...).  Could really use some help!</p>