How do I add /blog/ as a prefix to permalink structure for blog posts, tag pages, etc.?

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I’m using WordPress 3.1.3 as a full CMS, installed in the root directory of a domain. I have it setup using the built in options to have a static page as the home page, and then my blog at http://www.example.com/blog.

What I would like is to have my single blog posts, category pages, archive pages, and tag pages, and any other blog-related pages have the “prefix” of /blog/ in their link structure. So a post URL would be www.example.com/blog/post-title

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Right now, I only have the category pages working correctly. This was accomplished by adding the following line to my .htacces file: 

RewriteRule ^category/(.+)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Then, I set the Category Base to “blog” on the Permalinks Settings page in WordPress. This gives category pages the URL of: www.example.com/blog/category-name (without removing the category prefix in .htaccess, they had the URL category/blog/category-name).

In an attempt to get this working for the other things I want it to work for, I set my Tag Base to “blog.” I also made my Custom Permalink Structure: /blog/%postname% (as suggested by a few threads I’ve found searching on Google).

These settings give the URLs for the single blog posts, tags pages, and archive pages the URL structure I’m looking for. However, it makes them all lead to 404 errors.

I deleted my .htaccess file to ensure WordPress was writing to it, and it is. If I remove the /blog/ from the permalink structure, everything works correctly, but I no longer have the URL structure I’m looking for.

I’m at a loss as to what I should do. I keep reading threads and guides saying this is as simple as adding /blog/ to the permalink structure, but so far it hasn’t been nearly that simple.

.htaccess contents: 

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
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  2. You get 404 errors when you add /blog/ to the custom permalink structure and then also add /blog/ to the category base. It should only be added to one, the custom permalink structure.

    If you leave your category base and tag base blank and just add /blog/ to the front of the custom permalink structure to make it look like this /blog/%postname% – this will get the desired result.

    Your pages will look like this: domain.example/pagename/
    Your post URL will look like this: domain.example/blog/postname
    Your category URL will look like this – domain.example/blog/category/postname