Title: Problems changing permalink
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Problems changing permalink

 *  [romansolarz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/romansolarz/)
 * (@romansolarz)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-changing-permalink/)
 * Hello,
 * Im trying to change my permalinks, but im having some problems. My permalink 
   was ?p=123, and i want to change it to /%postname% , but it won’t let me. When
   i change it to /%postname% i just get 404 errors. Somehow every other format 
   permalink is possible, except for /%postname%. The closest i get to /%postname
   is /index.php/%postname%, wich is working fine. How can i fix this?
 * Im using wordpress 2.8.5.
 * Roman,

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 *  [danstech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danstech/)
 * (@danstech)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-changing-permalink/#post-1253882)
 * try
    `/%postname%/`
 *  Thread Starter [romansolarz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/romansolarz/)
 * (@romansolarz)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-changing-permalink/#post-1253892)
 * Thanks, but /%postname%/ doesnt work either.
 *  Thread Starter [romansolarz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/romansolarz/)
 * (@romansolarz)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-changing-permalink/#post-1254003)
 * Can someone please help me out? Thanks.
 *  [sambazon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sambazon/)
 * (@sambazon)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-changing-permalink/#post-1254268)
 * i’m having the same problem and have tried just about every suggestion in the
   codex…
 * please advise!
 *  [kazzer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kazzer/)
 * (@kazzer)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-changing-permalink/#post-1254298)
 * I’m having the same problem – please advise!! This member posted 2 months ago
   for this.
    Please help.
 *  [kazzer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kazzer/)
 * (@kazzer)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-changing-permalink/#post-1254299)
 * Thanks – found the answer – rewrite_mod in apache, the instructions clear when
   you search under ‘%postname%’. Thank you

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-changing-permalink/#post-1254299)
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