Title: Permalink problem, please help
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Permalink problem, please help

 *  [bahcevan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bahcevan/)
 * (@bahcevan)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-please-help-2/)
 * I just setp up a blog ([http://www.cenksonmezsoy.com](http://www.cenksonmezsoy.com))
   with hosting from godaddy. I apparently selected the windows option instead of
   linux and when I change my permalink structure, the code WordPress provides is
   for a web.config file and NOT a htaccess file as I am used to in my other blogs.
   I thought a web.config file was created just like a htaccess so I went ahead 
   and input the code in a text file and renamed it web.config, but that doesn’t
   work. After I upload it via ftp program, it displays web.config.txt as the file
   name no matter what I do. So I am back to the ugly permalink structure but now
   there’s another problem. The website is giving the below error message every 
   other hour especially if I am posting or playing around editing posts. It goes
   back to normal after 10 minutes but it is annoying. Does anyone know how to solve
   this problem without switching to a linux server (which is a huge headache for
   me). Here’s the error message displayed on a hourly basis (not sure if it’s related
   me playing with the permalink but I need a web.config file to display the error
   message in detail as well):
 * Server Error in ‘/’ Application.
    Runtime Error Description: An application error
   occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application
   prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for 
   security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local
   server machine.
 * Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable 
   on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a “web.config” 
   configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application.
   This <customErrors> tag should then have its “mode” attribute set to “Off”.
 * <!– Web.Config Configuration File –>
 * <configuration>
    <system.web> <customErrors mode=”Off”/> </system.web> </configuration
   >
 * Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error
   page by modifying the “defaultRedirect” attribute of the application’s <customErrors
   > configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.
 * <!– Web.Config Configuration File –>
 * <configuration>
    <system.web> <customErrors mode=”RemoteOnly” defaultRedirect
   =”mycustompage.htm”/> </system.web> </configuration>

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-please-help-2/#post-1185690)
 * please switch to linux and save yourself some headaches – you can do it for free
   in godaddy hosting control panel
 * here are your permalink options with windows
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Permalinks_without_mod_rewrite](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Permalinks_without_mod_rewrite)

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 * [permalink](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalink/)
 * [runtime error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/runtime-error/)

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 * Last reply from: [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-please-help-2/#post-1185690)
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