Title: URL simplification
Last modified: August 19, 2016

---

# URL simplification

 *  [Richard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greenenergycafe/)
 * (@greenenergycafe)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-simplification/)
 * We are using WP on a hosted domain. On that hosted domain we have an add-on domain,
   and that is where the WP is used.
    It installed and is running fine. Our question
   is regarding the URL shown in a browser when the site is visited. When we open
   the homepage in a browser, we get a URL such as: [http://yourdomain.com](http://yourdomain.com),
   as expected. When we follow any links we get instead a URL with the IP address,
   such as: [http://[IPaddress]~subdirectory/domain](http://[IPaddress]~subdirectory/domain)
   name/section/ This works, but I’d prefer to have a more discreet and friendly
   URL. I contacted the hosting company, and they suggested going into the mySQL
   database table ‘wp_options’ and manually changing the ‘Site URL’ and ‘Home’ fields
   to what we wanted displayed in the browser URL display. That worked for solving
   that issue, but created other issues, such as as soon as we move off the homepage
   via a link on the homepage, we get a 500 error. Obviously, there’s more involved
   than those two fields. Anyone know how complex this is going to get to be able
   to solve the first problem yet not upset the rest of the apple cart???

The topic ‘URL simplification’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [500 error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/500-error/)
 * [add on domain](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/add-on-domain/)
 * [friendly url](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/friendly-url/)
 * [url](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/url/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 0 replies
 * 1 participant
 * Last reply from: [Richard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greenenergycafe/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-simplification/)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics