Title: permalink structure problems
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# permalink structure problems

 *  [schirintang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/schirintang/)
 * (@schirintang)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-strucutre-problems/)
 * Hi, I just installed 2.8.4 and I’m having problems with my permalinks. I have
   my blog URL set to [http://www.fillingintheblanks.com](http://www.fillingintheblanks.com)
   and wordpress url is fillingintheblanks.com/wordpress. My index.php is configured
   properly as far as I can tell; if you go to fillingintheblanks.com it loads wordpress
   properly. However, NONE of my post links or pages links work. They all loop back
   to index.php because they aren’t including the /wordpress/ in the url. All my“
   ugly” permalinks are published as [http://www.fillingintheblanks.com/?p=5](http://www.fillingintheblanks.com/?p=5)
 * if I type out [http://www.fillingintheblanks.com/wordpress/?p=5](http://www.fillingintheblanks.com/wordpress/?p=5)
   then I can get to the post or page etc. WHY won’t the links publish correctly?
   If I change my blog url to be fillingintheblanks.com/wordpress then all the links
   work. I’ve looked through and followed all the “giving wordpress it’s own directory”
   pages and searched for answers but I’m stuck now and I’m a complete newbie to
   this so I’m sorry if it’s a simple reason that I’ve missed. I’m using ugly links
   because I have Windows IIS and have no idea how to deal with the url rewrite 
   stuff.

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 *  [jceresini](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jceresini/)
 * (@jceresini)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-strucutre-problems/#post-1218865)
 * If you have wordpress in a sub-directory you’ll need to set the wordpress url
   to [domain.com]/wordpress/. You can, however, move all the wordpress files into
   the main directory, rather than the wordpress directory, and change the url to
   just be [domain.com]. It all depends on whether you want it in its own directory.
   Id recommend moving it into the main directory for your website though
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 *  [guischarf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/guischarf/)
 * (@guischarf)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-strucutre-problems/#post-1218898)
 * Were your permalinks working before you upgraded to 2.8.4 ? Or this is a fresh
   install and permalinks have never worked ?
 *  Thread Starter [schirintang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/schirintang/)
 * (@schirintang)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-strucutre-problems/#post-1218956)
 * Yes the permalinks were working before the upgrade. And I want to keep wordpress
   in a separate directory so the wordpress files aren’t cluttering my main directory.
   Why do you recommend the main directory?
 *  Thread Starter [schirintang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/schirintang/)
 * (@schirintang)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-strucutre-problems/#post-1218958)
 * I did a fresh install and it just refuses to give me working links if I keep 
   my wordpress in domain.com/wordpress and want it showing on domain.com/index.
   php
 * For now I’m keeping it in domain.com/wordpress but now I have no index page for
   my main directory.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [schirintang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/schirintang/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-strucutre-problems/#post-1218958)
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