Only Custom structure not working, Plz help

Why aren’t you using the preset Post name structure?

Hey,

I want my post name structure to be short and memorable.

https://createawebsite4free.com/id2345/ does not look nice as compared to
https://createawebsite4free.com/sample-page/.
It looks much better and easy to remember.

plz help.

Look at the last of the preset permalink options. It uses just post name.

Hello Esmi,

All the permalink settings including
Default,
Day and name,
Month and name,
Numeric and
Post name
Are working fine except the Custom Structure.

i.e. Custom Structure https://createawebsite4free.com/%postname%/

Then there’s an issue with the structure tag that you have entered. As I have tried to point out, the last preset option in this list:

Default,
Day and name,
Month and name,
Numeric and
Post name

uses post name – the very thing you are trying to achieve.

hello esmi,

I got you now but you still didn’t get me.

If I use post name, my url looks like
https://createawebsite4free.com/index.php/sample-page/

but I don’t want index.php in between, I only want my url to look like

https://createawebsite4free.com/sample-page/

Thanks for taking time to help me out.

What server flavour are you using? Zeus? IIS? If it’s anything other than standard Apache, it could be that you cannot have a custom permalink structure without the index. fragment. See Using_Permalinks for further details.

hello,

I think it’s php5 and fast CGI.

That doesn’t tell us what kind of server it is. Just what is installed on it.

What should I ask my hosting provider in this regard and Is there any plugin that can do this work for me?

Ask them what kind of server your site is running on.

What answer should I expect from them to be on my favor.

And what about using plugins for rewriting the URLs.

Also I don’t have a .htaccess file on my server.

So how about creating one and adding the following code and uploading

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Will it work?

Thanks.

What answer should I expect from them to be on my favor.

Apache/Linux.

I don’t have a .htaccess file on my server.

Which suggests that you’re on a Windows server. They do not use .htaccess files.

Yes, I am on windows server

here are some of the features stated by my web host.

MSSQL Server 2005/2008 Databases

Choice of ASP.NET Ver. 1.x, 2.x & 3.0, 3.5,4.0

Choice of PHP 4 or PHP5 for all clients

Classical ASP, Perl, Python , AJAX

Latest Plesk Control Panel for your clients

Free 70 Web Applications/Scripts

Are these features enough for WordPress custom permalinks.

Thanks.

Here are some additional features stated by my web host.

————–Website Tools————————-
Configure and Manage IIS
Protect directories and files, assign users
Website redirects
Edit MIME types and Apache handlers
Manage files in web interface