Permalink Renaming

Yes,

Make sure your .htaccess is writable (use windows commander / or whatever you use for upload). Right-click on .htaccess. You will have CHANGE ATTRIBUTES. Put there 777. When you are done put back 644. After that use your wordpress Admin panel -> Settings -> Permalinks. You have it all there. Change whatever you want however you want it.

I have had a non-wordpress site for years at https://www.example.com. I recently switched host services and re-built my site using wordpress. During the re-building I left my old site live on the original server and built the new site under the url (example) https://123.45.67.891/userid.

I completed the re-build and activated the new host with my url https://www.example.com but now my permalinks read like https://123.45.67.891/userid/pagename. Of course, I want them to read https://www.example.com/pagename.

How do I correct this?

See Changing_The_Site_URL

yes, thanks, that was a useful reply. After 3 tries with my host tech support the solution turned out to be modifying the htaccess file.

the line in question was:

RewriteRule . /userid/index.php [L]

which needed to be changed to:

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]