# Permalinks

https://docs.wisecp.com/de/permalinks

Choose how the site's web addresses are built, and rename the built-in page and category terms for each language.

## Opening the Screen

Open **Settings › General**, then choose the **Permalinks** tab: `{admin}/settings?general=permalinks`

## What Is on the Screen

The tab holds two panels. Opening one closes the other.

### URL Structures

Three cards, one per structure. Each shows a live example next to `example.com/` and a short server requirement. The structure in use today is pre-selected.

### URL Configuration

A language strip switches which language's terms you are editing. Below it, a grid holds every built-in page, category and section term as its own field. A **Revert to Default Settings** button sits at the end of the form.

## Fields

- **URL Structure Type**: Three choices. **SEO-Friendly** (recommended) needs mod_rewrite on the server. **Path-Based** needs the cgi.fix_pathinfo directive set to 1 in php.ini. **Route-Based** is the basic structure and needs no server configuration.
- **URL Configuration**: One field per built-in term — product pages, categories and the other built-in sections — repeated for every language. Typing a new word renames that part of the address.

## Tasks

### Change the URL structure

1. Open **URL Structures** and pick a structure.
2. Save. If the structure needs a server feature the site does not have, saving is refused with an explanation, and the previous structure stays active.
3. Once saved, every address on the site follows the new structure right away.

### Rename a built-in term for a language

1. Open **URL Configuration** and switch to the language you want to edit.
2. Change the field for the term you want renamed.
3. Save. The new word appears in that language's addresses from then on.

## Things to Watch

> **A structure change is tested live before it saves**
> 
> SEO-Friendly and Path-Based are checked against the server at the moment you save. A failed check leaves the site on its previous structure.

> **Clearing a field keeps the old word**
> 
> An empty field is not saved on its own. Type a new word over it — that is the only way to change what an address shows.

> **Revert to Default Settings resets every language**
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> It restores the built-in terms for every active language at once, including languages other than the one you are viewing.

## Required Privileges

Opening **Settings › General** needs `SETTINGS_INFORMATIONS_CONFIGURE`. Viewing and saving the Permalinks tab additionally needs `SETTINGS_SEO_CONFIGURE`.

## Related Articles

- [General Settings Overview](https://docs.wisecp.com/en/general-settings-overview)
- [SEO Settings](https://docs.wisecp.com/en/seo-settings)