Title: permalinks not working correctly
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# permalinks not working correctly

 *  Resolved [kyleo92](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kyleo92/)
 * (@kyleo92)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-not-working-correctly/)
 * Okay, so we’ve installed a blog. Of course, we have the day and name peramlink
   selected (domain.com/index.php/2010/09/19/sample-post/).
 * Links to posts on the homepage work all fine and dandy. However, category, author
   pages, wordpress pages, basically everything else, do not work unless we use 
   the ugly permalinks (domain.com/index.php?cat=ID, domain.com/index.php?author
   =ID, domain.com/index.php?page_id=ID).
 * We’ve tried changing permalinks settings, disabling plugins…We are absolutely
   clue less on what to do.
 * It wouldn’t be so bad if all of the non-posts links shown through WordPress (
   such as an author link on the post) lead to the pretty permalink didn’t work.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-not-working-correctly/#post-1681293)
 * Unless you provide a link to a page demonstrating the problem, no one will be
   able to offer much in the way of specific help.
 *  Thread Starter [kyleo92](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kyleo92/)
 * (@kyleo92)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-not-working-correctly/#post-1681308)
 * This page works: [link removed]
    The author (click the author’s name to go here:[
   link removed]) comes up as a blank page. However, if you try to access the author
   page via [link removed] it works…
 * Sorry I didn’t include that earlier.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-not-working-correctly/#post-1681312)
 * Try resetting your custom permalinks back to the default setting and deleting/
   renaming your WordPress .htaccess file. If this works, then set a custom permalink
   structure back up again.
 *  Thread Starter [kyleo92](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kyleo92/)
 * (@kyleo92)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-not-working-correctly/#post-1681317)
 * Thanks esmi…I went to go and deleted it and noticed the server never had one.
   So, apparently, it isn’t allowed. I’m doing this for a friend and am not quite
   familiar with their server. So, I guess the absence of the .htaccess and the 
   fact that I cannot add one is what is causing the problems.

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 * Last reply from: [kyleo92](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kyleo92/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-not-working-correctly/#post-1681317)
 * Status: resolved

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