Title: Help with Permalinks
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Help with Permalinks

 *  [sphankin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sphankin/)
 * (@sphankin)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-permalinks-7/)
 * I have been spending ages to get my webiste url to say domainname.co.uk/%postname%/
   or domainname.co.uk/%category%/%postname% but nothing works.
 * The only way I can get them to work it by adding index.php like this domainname.
   co.uk/index.php/%category%/%postname%.
 * I have tried all sorts but still can’t get it to work. When I change the permalink
   to /%category%/%postname% it changes the pages and posts and when you click on
   the button ‘view page’, it doesn’t exist – even though it is giving me that page
   link…
 * Does anyone know what I’m doing wrong?
 * Please help.
 * If it helps my website is [http://www.samhankin.co.uk](http://www.samhankin.co.uk).
 * Thanks 😀

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-permalinks-7/#post-1714245)
 * Contact your hosting provider and ask if `mod_rewrite` is installed and enabled
   on your server.
 *  [webjunk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webjunk/)
 * (@webjunk)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-permalinks-7/#post-1714263)
 * Are you under Apache or IIS?
 *  Thread Starter [sphankin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sphankin/)
 * (@sphankin)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-permalinks-7/#post-1714307)
 * They replied with…
 * No, we run IIS on our Windows servers not Apache/Mod_rewrite.
 * Are you wanting ISAPI Rewrite for URL rewriting?
 * I don’t understand…
 * Thanks for the help!
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-permalinks-7/#post-1714308)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Permalinks_without_mod_rewrite](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Permalinks_without_mod_rewrite)

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## Tags

 * [incorrect](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/incorrect/)
 * [index.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/index-php/)
 * [pagename](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/pagename/)
 * [permalink](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalink/)
 * [postname](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/postname/)
 * [problem](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/problem/)
 * [url](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/url/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-permalinks-7/#post-1714308)
 * Status: not resolved

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