Title: Permalink Structure Problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Permalink Structure Problem

 *  [smijos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smijos/)
 * (@smijos)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure-problem-2/)
 * Hi – searched around but haven’t come up with anything on this yet.
 * I’d like to use the pretty permalink structure of
    `/%category%/%postname%`
 * The problem is, once I switch, the browser thinks it’s in these faux directories.
   I have edited individual pages and included img tags and the like soooo…
 * Since WordPress is operating out of a faux directory, it can’t access my /images
   folder. I can include the full URL path in my tags to fix this, but I have a 
   couple hundred swf’s that reference a file in the root, and can’t get to the 
   root.
 * Is there any way to use pretty permalink structure and still fool the browser
   into thinking it’s still in the root directory? or did I miss something?
 * thanks

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 *  [Jon Dingman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdingman/)
 * (@jdingman)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure-problem-2/#post-1475037)
 * I would avoid using a permalink structure like that.
 * take a look at this article to get an overview of the best permalink practices:
   [http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/02/04/efficient-wordpress-permalinks](http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/02/04/efficient-wordpress-permalinks)
 *  Thread Starter [smijos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smijos/)
 * (@smijos)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure-problem-2/#post-1475087)
 * thanks for the reply – i do appreciate it – but it’s not relevant
 * For example, if I followed the advice of your link, I could use a structure like`/%
   post_id%/%postname%/` – then my browser would fail to load my /images folder 
   because it thinks it is operating from an imaginary `/%post_id%/` directory and
   not the root
 *  [Jon Dingman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdingman/)
 * (@jdingman)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure-problem-2/#post-1475090)
 * your permalink structure really shouldn’t have anything to do with images being
   served.
 * do you have the “organized based on the date” selected?
 * do you have the correct permissions set to the media directories?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Jon Dingman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdingman/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure-problem-2/#post-1475090)
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