Title: “index.php” missing from lins
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# “index.php” missing from lins

 *  [paltenberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paltenberg/)
 * (@paltenberg)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-missing-from-lins/)
 * Hi, sorry to re-post this but now that the topic is narrowed down a bit I thought
   I would try again. Seems like my links on my blog page are missing the “index.
   php” part. One suggestions was to put that General options Blog address. When
   I did this it added “index.php/” to the links. With the “/” it is still a messed
   up link. Any ideas how to fix this? Would really like to get my blog working 
   correctly.
 * Thanks,
    ~peter

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 *  [Jon Dingman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdingman/)
 * (@jdingman)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-missing-from-lins/#post-231022)
 * Are you using permalinks and is mod_rewrite enabled on your web server?
 *  Thread Starter [paltenberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paltenberg/)
 * (@paltenberg)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-missing-from-lins/#post-231045)
 * I’m new to this and I don’t think I’m using permalinks and I don’t know if mod_rewrite
   is enabled or how to enable it. Is this something that can easily be done or 
   do I have to do some reading? This is getting terribly frustrating.
 * thanks,
    ~peter
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-missing-from-lins/#post-231174)
 * Reading about Permalinks:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)
   If you don’t have mod_rewrite enabled – read Section 4.
 *  Thread Starter [paltenberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paltenberg/)
 * (@paltenberg)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-missing-from-lins/#post-231180)
 * OK, I read about permalinks. I don’t really need permalinks. It seems like they
   are not used by default. Correct? Do I still need to enable mod_rewrite? All 
   I want is a very simple blog, just postings and comments, very basic.
 *  Thread Starter [paltenberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paltenberg/)
 * (@paltenberg)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-missing-from-lins/#post-231183)
 * I cannot find the .htaccess file. Could this be the problem? It says to change
   permissions on this file but it’s not there. How do know if mod_rewrite is enabled?
 * thanks
 *  Thread Starter [paltenberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paltenberg/)
 * (@paltenberg)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-missing-from-lins/#post-231186)
 * I talked again to my service provider and they say the mod_rewrite is enabled.
   do I still need to create a .htaccess file? If so how do I do that?
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-missing-from-lins/#post-231188)
 * With a plain text editor create an empty file named .htaccess and upload it to
   the root directory of your blog. Chmod 666 (temporarily!)
    Go your your Options
   > Permalinks panel and enter the desired nice permalink structure in the fileds.
   At the bottom right click Update Options. You should be done. Change the permissions
   on your .htaccess file.
 *  Thread Starter [paltenberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paltenberg/)
 * (@paltenberg)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-missing-from-lins/#post-231197)
 * OK, I added the .htaccess and modified the permalinks structure (to this /%year%/%
   monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/). Now all the links go to the URL from this structure
   but there is nothing there, I get:
 * “Not Found
    The requested URL /blog/2005/07/07/tester/ was not found on this 
   server.”
 * Is there something else I need to do?
 * thanks.
 *  Thread Starter [paltenberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paltenberg/)
 * (@paltenberg)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-missing-from-lins/#post-231200)

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