Title: info on mod rewrite  – modify index.php permalink
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# info on mod rewrite – modify index.php permalink

 *  [coreydeep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coreydeep/)
 * (@coreydeep)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/info-on-mod-rewrite-modify-indexphp-permalink/)
 * Hi,
 * I have a site with pretty permalinks. however, unlike the documentation here
   
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks](http://http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks),
   my current url structure contains index.php
 * _example.com/index.php/page.php_
 * I would like to modify the index.php to something else, as it looks odd. I would
   prefer _example.com/something/page.php_ or something like that.
    It is possible
   my .htaccess file is not being written to by wordpress. I am still able to change
   permalink type however. yet the index.php is there.
 * thanks in advance
 * ~ corey

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 *  [moodsoft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moodsoft/)
 * (@moodsoft)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/info-on-mod-rewrite-modify-indexphp-permalink/#post-610878)
 * Hi Corey,
 * For mine I’ve found if you do a permalink that is like:
 * /%category%/
    it will skip the index.php, it seems to generate:
 * example.com/category/<category name>
 *  Thread Starter [coreydeep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coreydeep/)
 * (@coreydeep)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/info-on-mod-rewrite-modify-indexphp-permalink/#post-610979)
 * hi,
    thanks for the response, not sure if that will help my situation. i am dealing
   with pages more so than posts. pages aren’t categorized. i am thinking it is 
   a htaccess issue. its confusing. i dont see where wp is writing to htacess. my
   root file is not being updated. permissions are correct.
 *  [danielelder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielelder/)
 * (@danielelder)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/info-on-mod-rewrite-modify-indexphp-permalink/#post-611238)
 * Check out his page [.htaccess modification](http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia/2008/03/override-single-wordpress-pages-with-htaccess/#fnote59_1)

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 * [pretty permalinks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/pretty-permalinks/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [danielelder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielelder/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/info-on-mod-rewrite-modify-indexphp-permalink/#post-611238)
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