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1. dcheshire
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I've searched the forums for posts related to permalinks and aslo read through http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks, but I can't find an answer to this puzzle.

   When I change the permalinks on a new Worpress site (www.thinkpinkskips.co.uk) they only work when /index.php/ is included in the URL. On other sites I have worked on, we have set the permalink structure to just /%postname%/ without any problems.

   When I view the permalinks page in wp-admin I have these standard options:
   http://thinkpinkskips.co.uk/?p=123
   http://thinkpinkskips.co.uk/index.php/2008/05/27/sample-post/
   http://thinkpinkskips.co.uk/index.php/2008/05/sample-post/
   http://thinkpinkskips.co.uk/index.php/archives/123
   and the custom one set to:
   /index.php/%postname%/

   as you can see all except the default one include /index.php/ in the URL.

   Does anyone know why this is, and what I can do to remove it so that I can have Page URLs of http://www.thinkpinkskips.co.uk/pagename

   Thanks

2. Chris_K
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   That's actually discussed in Using_Permalinks -- look for "almost pretty" section.

   Why does it happen? Your host either isn't offering mod_rewrite or hasn't enabled it via the AllowOverrides directive in the apache configuration. As you might suspect, this is commonly seen on windows hosts.

3. dcheshire
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Thanks HandySolo... you're right I missed that section.

   So, onto the Host to ask for Mod_rewrite to be enabled.... otherwise we live with them as they are.

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