Title: Permalink issue when switching hosts
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Permalink issue when switching hosts

 *  [pdxrwilliamz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pdxrwilliamz/)
 * (@pdxrwilliamz)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-when-switching-hosts/)
 * My site is [http://www.webthingsconsidered.com](http://www.webthingsconsidered.com)
 * I just switched to dreamhost (unix/apache) from a windows/iis host. My site was
   using the /index.php/ style of permalinks on the old host successfully. After
   switching, it’s not working anymore. I get the “No input file specified.” error
   when trying to access a permalink.
 * I have an empty .htaccess file in the web root (dreamhost seems to create one
   for you with all of the wordpress rules in it if you delete it, so I just emptied
   it out), and the same permalink structure setup in wordpress (/index.php/%year%/%
   monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/) as before. I’ve tried with and without the php.ini
   file just to see if that was the problem, and it didn’t help.
 * Any advice for clearing this up?

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 *  Thread Starter [pdxrwilliamz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pdxrwilliamz/)
 * (@pdxrwilliamz)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-when-switching-hosts/#post-366635)
 * Hmm. Never mind. It seems to be working now. I just changed the site config to
   use PHP 5, so maybe that did it.

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-when-switching-hosts/#post-366635)
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