index.php added to permalinks

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10 years, 4 months ago

I’ve noticed a strange(?) behaviour of the Duplicator.

In the permalinks settings screen you have some common setting to chose from…

http://mysite.com/2016/04/11/postname
http://mysite.com/archive/123
http://mysite.com/postname

and so on…

This is what my settings looked like on the old server. When installed on the new server via Duplicator the common settings to chose from have all been added with a index.php into the url, like this:

http://mysite.com/index.php/2016/04/11/postname
http://mysite.com/index.php/archive/123
http://mysite.com/index.php/postname

Things seems to be working. But why is the index.php added? Do I need to take some kind of action? Is this common things when using Duplicator or is it a setting or feature I need to adjust?

Cheers!

https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/

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Cory Lamle
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10 years, 4 months ago

The WordPress admin permalinks section works in-conjunction with the .htaccess file. I would check your .htaccess and see how its setup. The index.php item doesn’t look correct to me.

The only way I know of the Duplicator adding that in there is if on the second screen of the installer you placed index.php as part of the path. Otherwise I’m not sure how that got there. Do you have any other plugins installed that write to the .htaccess file. Some common plugins are SEO, Security, Stats plugins, etc…

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10 years, 4 months ago

The .htaccess looks like this

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Basic settings as from Codex, https://codex.wordpress.org/htaccess

Nope, did not add that to the path.

Very basic site, only three plugins:
BackWpUp
ACF Pro
Duplicator

Can it be a server setting? What do I need to ask my host?

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10 years, 4 months ago

Ok. I deleted the .htaccess file and tried to update permalinks.

No new .htaccess file is added. And if I add the file manually wordpress doesn’t write to the file when I update the permalink settings.

I even tried to add a new wp installation on the servers at my new host. Same thing happens even to a new installation.

So I think I can confirm that this is NOT a bad behaviour from your plugin.

This must be a server issue.

Cory Lamle
(@corylamleorg)

10 years, 4 months ago

The PHP process on your server may not have permissions to update the .htaccess file. This can sometimes be the case…

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