René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Support permalink structure without leading index.php","articleBody":"## Feature Request\n\n- [x] Yes, I reviewed the [contribution guidelines](https://make.wordpress.org/cli/handbook/contributing/).\n\n**Describe your use case and the problem you are facing**\n\nPossibly related to #56? I'm not totally sure what's going on there since pretty permalinks seem to work just fine.\n\nI am running a wp site locally with `wp server`. While I can set any arbitrary permalink structure using wp-cli (e.g. `/%postname%/`), if I want to set the permalink structure in wp-admin it must include a leading index.php:\n\n\u003cimg width=\"880\" height=\"414\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/54a92894-20dc-48b7-b64f-038a40651bd6\" />\n\nIt looks like wordpress relies on the [got_url_rewrite function](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/got_url_rewrite/) to decide whether our server supports url rewriting/pretty permalinks, and if not adds that leading index.php.\n\nhttps://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/0c3e42c238fc2ca907bbe649160598f39267d812/src/wp-admin/options-permalink.php#L79-L81\n\n**Describe the solution you'd like**\n\nFilter `got_url_rewrite` in the router script:\n\n```php\nadd_filter( 'got_url_rewrite', '__return_true' );\n```\n\nAny objections?\n\nAs far as I can find the only other place `got_url_rewrite()` is used is in the `WP_Debug_Data` class to check whether the server supports pretty permalinks.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/ssnepenthe","@type":"Person","name":"ssnepenthe"},"datePublished":"2026-02-04T20:18:09Z","url":"https://github.com/wp-cli/server-command/issues/91"}