Title: Permalink Structure Gone Haywire
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Permalink Structure Gone Haywire

 *  [eragle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eragle/)
 * (@eragle)
 * [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure-gone-haywire/)
 * I just completed a fresh install a few days ago and attempted to change the permalink
   structure utilizing one of the suggest structures listed.
 * After I did so all of my permalinks now give 404’s. Anyone have any suggestions?
 * Disregard. Although I have apache and mod_rewrite installed, I still needed to
   add the /index.php/ to the beginning of the structure.
 * Thanks anyway!

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 *  [jinsan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jinsan/)
 * (@jinsan)
 * [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure-gone-haywire/#post-222342)
 * if you have mode_rewrite enabled, and your htaccess can be written to you don’t
   need to add index.php – that’s for users who DON’T have htaccess and rewrite.
 *  [phiali](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phiali/)
 * (@phiali)
 * [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure-gone-haywire/#post-222394)
 * As Jinsan has pointed out it might have been that the .htaccess was not written
   to.
 * Try and re-create the permalinks again but this time download your .htaccess 
   file and see if WordPress was able to insert all the bits into there. If not 
   just copy and paste the code from the permalink page into your .htaccess, upload
   and all should be fine!
 * I just switched on permalinks myself but am using index.php as the basis for 
   it as I did not want to use .htaccess
 * Alistair
 *  [boneless](https://wordpress.org/support/users/boneless/)
 * (@boneless)
 * [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure-gone-haywire/#post-222398)
 * I had the same problem, turned out wordpress didnt replace the info in the .htaccess,
   but just added info again and again. After i manually removed all the wp-related
   info in the .htaccess file, and then let wp rewrite it, it did work.

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure-gone-haywire/#post-222398)
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