Title: strange default permalink structure
Last modified: September 13, 2016

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# strange default permalink structure

 *  [superdooper0192019](https://wordpress.org/support/users/superdooper0192019/)
 * (@superdooper0192019)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-default-permalink-structure/)
 * I am using a RHEL7 instance with default Apache, MySQL, and latest WordPress.
   
   For some reason by default the permalink structure is /index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%
   day%/%postname%/
 * If i change it to anything else it breaks the site and things start to 404.
 * Thanks in advance for help / tips.
    -  This topic was modified 9 years, 8 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).
      Reason: Moving to How-To and Troubleshooting
    -  This topic was modified 9 years, 8 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-default-permalink-structure/#post-8176249)
 * In the virtual host configuration for your site (probably in `/etc/httpd/conf/
   httpd.conf`) add this
 *     ```
       <Directory /path/to/wordpress>
          AllowOverride All
       <Directory>
       ```
   
 * then restart httpd
 * By default `AllowOverride` is `None`, which causes httpd to ignore .htaccess
 *  Thread Starter [superdooper0192019](https://wordpress.org/support/users/superdooper0192019/)
 * (@superdooper0192019)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-default-permalink-structure/#post-8184025)
 * That does not solve the problem. It still throws a 404 error when the link structure
   is updated even with a global override all like you suggested.
 * Does anyone have any other thoughts?
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 8 months ago by [superdooper0192019](https://wordpress.org/support/users/superdooper0192019/).

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-default-permalink-structure/#post-8184025)
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