Title: Permalink problems
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Permalink problems

 *  [positivexposure](https://wordpress.org/support/users/positivexposure/)
 * (@positivexposure)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-11/)
 * I made [http://www.positivexposure.com](http://www.positivexposure.com) last 
   year, and I changed the permalinks with no problems, I don’t remember having 
   to even do anything.
    I made [http://www.positivexposure.com/blogs/personsnamehere](http://www.positivexposure.com/blogs/personsnamehere)(
   theyve all been deleted, though) and also changed them with no problem.
 * I’m trying to make [http://www.positivexposure.com/australia](http://www.positivexposure.com/australia)(
   it’s up) and i have been having trouble with the permalinks.
    There was a 500
   error on the entire site when I changed it, so I went to the web.config file 
   and it wouldn’t let me change permissions so I edited it and took out the italic
   part.
 *     ```
       <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
       <configuration>
         <system.webServer>
           <rewrite>
             <rules>
              <em> <rule name="wordpress" patternSyntax="Wildcard">
                 <match url="*"/>
                 <conditions>
                   <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true"/>
                   <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true"/>
                 </conditions>
                 <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php"/>
               </rule></em>
             </rules>
           </rewrite>
         </system.webServer>
       </configuration>
       ```
   
 * doing that brought the main page of the site back, but clicking any pages or 
   posts brought “page not found.” So after a ton of reading here, I added “index.
   php” into the custom structure and it works.
 * Luckily at least I can see everything now, but, I really dont want the index.
   php part there….
 * I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing with coding or anything, which is why
   I’m using WordPress (through GoDaddy)….so i need directions a Kindergartener 
   could understand.

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 *  Thread Starter [positivexposure](https://wordpress.org/support/users/positivexposure/)
 * (@positivexposure)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-11/#post-1465266)
 * No one has a suggestion??
 *  [Shane G.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shane-g-1/)
 * (@shane-g-1)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-11/#post-1465290)
 * Hi,
 * Reset your desired permalink and add this code in htaccess:
 *     ```
       # BEGIN WordPress
   
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
       RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
       </IfModule>
   
       # END WordPress
       ```
   
 * After that have a check with blog posts and pages. Also make sure that you have
   correctly changed the site URL. However, for that refer this article:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL)
 * Thanks,
 * Shane G.
 *  Thread Starter [positivexposure](https://wordpress.org/support/users/positivexposure/)
 * (@positivexposure)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-11/#post-1465305)
 * I don’t see an .htaccess file and there’s no way to view hidden files, so I created
   a file with that name and I put that in the file, and nothing changed, it just
   said page not found.
 * However, why would I have to change my site URL? [http://www.positivexposure.com/australia](http://www.positivexposure.com/australia)
   is the URL I want and the URL it’s at.

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## Tags

 * [500 error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/500-error/)
 * [permalink](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalink/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [positivexposure](https://wordpress.org/support/users/positivexposure/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problems-11/#post-1465305)
 * Status: not resolved

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