Title: Permalink Settings
Last modified: August 19, 2016

---

# Permalink Settings

 *  Resolved [yugolancer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yugolancer/)
 * (@yugolancer)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-settings-2/)
 * Hello,
 * If i set the Permalink Settings to anything but Default the pages stop working.
   Rather i get the HTTP 404 error (The resource cannot be found.).
 * I am hosting it with godaddy on Windows server with IIS7.
 * Means it works when Default is selected.
 * Thanks!!!

Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total)

 *  [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
 * (@iridiax)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-settings-2/#post-1085039)
 * See: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Permalinks_without_mod_rewrite](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Permalinks_without_mod_rewrite)
 *  Thread Starter [yugolancer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yugolancer/)
 * (@yugolancer)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-settings-2/#post-1085041)
 * Well none of the suggestions worked for me. Actually most of them require me 
   to have admin rights on the server which i don’t have.
    This is godaddy shared
   hosting (deluxe) and it runs Windows Server 2003 and IIS 7.0. Any other ideas?
   Thanks!
 *  [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
 * (@iridiax)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-settings-2/#post-1085042)
 * Contact your web host, they may be able to help you fix this.
 *  Thread Starter [yugolancer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yugolancer/)
 * (@yugolancer)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-settings-2/#post-1085043)
 * this seemed very promising [http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/466/enabling-pretty-permalinks-in-wordpress/](http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/466/enabling-pretty-permalinks-in-wordpress/)
   
   but if i upload the web.config file to the wordpress root dir i get error 500.
 *  [shane-g](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shane-g/)
 * (@shane-g)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-settings-2/#post-1085050)
 * Hi,
 * Please do these steps:
 * 1. Create the file wp-404-handler.php in your base WordPress folder. (you can
   also download it here).
    2. Set your sites 404 page to point to the wp-404-handler.
   php url. Most control panels at web hosts allow you to do this. If you’ve got
   the option to select between FILE and URL then choose URL. 3. Go to Options -
   > Permalinks in your WordPress admin page, and choose an appropriate structure
   for your links. Choose Custom with this pattern:
 *  /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
 * That’s it!
 * Thanks,
 * Shane G.
 *  Thread Starter [yugolancer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yugolancer/)
 * (@yugolancer)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-settings-2/#post-1085059)
 * No .. unfortunately fu*king GODADDY doesn’t allow URL rewriting.
    Can you imagine
   that they are suggesting me to buy dedicated server for this feature? I can’t
   fu*king believe !!! To buy dedicated server for just a BLOG? Insane !!!
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-settings-2/#post-1085067)
 * so don’t listen to godaddy
    you can switch to a linux server for free in your
   hosting control center log in to it and on right side you will see “switch operating
   systems” click that and do it
 *  Thread Starter [yugolancer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yugolancer/)
 * (@yugolancer)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-settings-2/#post-1085071)
 * Yes i can indeed but i have some ASP.NET sites hosting there.
    I think i will
   buy a new Linux package at another host. Thanks to all repliers!

Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total)

The topic ‘Permalink Settings’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

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

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 8 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [yugolancer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yugolancer/)
 * Last activity: [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-settings-2/#post-1085071)
 * Status: resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics