Title: Weird permalink problem – please help
Last modified: August 19, 2016

---

# Weird permalink problem – please help

 *  [daveshu1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daveshu1/)
 * (@daveshu1)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-permalink-problem-please-help/)
 * Hello,
    please can someone help me with this odd problem.
 * I was using the default permalink structure & changed it to /%postname%.
 * All of the wordpress stuff is not in the root, it’s in it’s own folder.
 * No problem for anything except 1 category that just doesn’t want to play ball
   at all. Everything works fine except this 1 category.
 * When I click on this category (in the subnav bar), I get a white page (the kind
   you get when an index file is missing on a normal site) with :
 * Index of /folder/category/the-page-name
    Parent directory wp-content/
 * Whats going on? I can’t fathom this for the life of me. If it were all of the
   categories acting up then okay, but just 1?
 * Could it be some setting in the database? I have actually dumped the database&
   replaced it with a backup from a week ago, but it does exactly the same thing.
 * Anyone help please?

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

 *  Thread Starter [daveshu1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daveshu1/)
 * (@daveshu1)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-permalink-problem-please-help/#post-1029436)
 * PS – I just noticed (if this makes any difference) that all of the working categories
   give me the address:
 * url/folder/category/the-name
 * this one has an extra slash on the end in this format:
 * url/folder/category/the-name/
 * ??
 *  Thread Starter [daveshu1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daveshu1/)
 * (@daveshu1)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-permalink-problem-please-help/#post-1029439)
 * This is very, very weird.
 * I just as an experiment tried changing the slug from:
 * the-name to the-name-page & it started working.
 * Change it back again to the-name and it stops working again.
 * I guess that I am happy to live with this fix, but being a curious kind of a 
   guy I’d love to understand why it’s doing this.
 * Any ideas anyone?

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

The topic ‘Weird permalink problem – please help’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

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

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 1 participant
 * Last reply from: [daveshu1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daveshu1/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-permalink-problem-please-help/#post-1029439)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics