Title: Permalink issue using %postname%  in 2.6 ?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Permalink issue using %postname% in 2.6 ?

 *  [Rob22](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rob22/)
 * (@rob22)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-using-postname-in-26/)
 * I installed 2.6 in root directory where a static site still has files and lots
   of subdirectories with lots of documents used in site linking. The site owner
   wants wp page slugs to match old static page names. I activated permalinks and
   edited a few page slugs. The structure is %postname%
 * I’ve edited the htaccess file using the content on the Permalinks page. I’ve 
   also put “category” and “tag” into the custom boxes as suggested in a post about
   permalink bug in 2.6.
    `http://wordpress.org/support/topic/189058?replies=1`
 * Pages are all okay, except one page causes a server file directory to appear 
   in the browser – not even a 404 error. If I edit the slug to be different than
   the old static page, it works. This doesn’t happen on any other page. The page
   slug is “articles” – is that a bad word? lol
    If I change the slug to “articles_by_me”
   the page appears. I tried deleting the page and writing a new one. But the slug“
   articles” breaks the page.
 * I tried changing the name of the static page (page-old.html) but that didn’t 
   work. This only happens on one page, other pages that duplicate old file names
   are working.
 * The site owner has put redirects on the old html pages, but this is confusing.
 * Thanks for any thoughts, tips, directions.

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 *  Thread Starter [Rob22](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rob22/)
 * (@rob22)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-using-postname-in-26/#post-820253)
 * While still trying to figure this out, I did figure out why I wasn’t getting 
   a 404 error page: I had not identified the posts page. Apparently if you have
   a static home page, you must also identify the posts page for the 404 to work.
   I created a new page for posts, but excluded it from the navigation (wp_list_pages,
   using page ID#) until it’s desired.
 * the permalinks issue is still annoying and I do hope there’s a fix soon.
 *  Thread Starter [Rob22](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rob22/)
 * (@rob22)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-using-postname-in-26/#post-820367)
 * Still working around this issue.
    Meanwhile, I discovered why the “articles” 
   link kept turning up the server directory. Since the wp pages don’t end with 
   an extension, when domain.com/articles is typed into the browser, it served up
   the directory called “articles” instead of the page called articles. So, to work
   around this, the htaccess file now has 301 redirects.
 * But – during my attempts to fix this, I turned the permalinks to default, logged
   out, then logged back in and turned the permalinks back to “%postname%” – now
   my index page is showing “index.php” instead of “domain.com” without the index.
   php after – it wasn’t doing that before.
 * So, one good thing about this is I’m learning more than I wanted to about permalinks
   and htaccess.

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 * Last reply from: [Rob22](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rob22/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-using-postname-in-26/#post-820367)
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