# Rewrite url in Haproxy
**URL:** https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/rewrite-url-in-haproxy/6432
**Category:** Help!
**Created:** [April 3, 2021, 2:16pm UTC](https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/rewrite-url-in-haproxy/6432 "2021-04-03T14:16:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@akashrp](https://discourse.haproxy.org/u/akashrp)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2021, 2:16pm UTC](https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/rewrite-url-in-haproxy/6432/1 "2021-04-03T14:16:30Z")
I am using Haproxy Fastcgi to serve php files for wordpress. Static files are served by Nginx. Everything is working but the wordpress permlinks are not working. Here is my Haproxy config file
global
log /dev/log local0
user haproxy
group www-data
```
# Default SSL material locations
```
defaults
log global
mode http
option httplog
option dontlognull
timeout connect 5000
timeout client 50000
timeout server 50000
errorfile 400 /etc/haproxy/errors/400.http
errorfile 403 /etc/haproxy/errors/403.http
errorfile 408 /etc/haproxy/errors/408.http
errorfile 500 /etc/haproxy/errors/500.http
errorfile 502 /etc/haproxy/errors/502.http
errorfile 503 /etc/haproxy/errors/503.http
errorfile 504 /etc/haproxy/errors/504.http
frontend myproxy
bind :80
acl url\_static path\_end .gif .png .jpg .css .js
use\_backend static if url\_static
use\_backend phpservers
default\_backend phpservers
backend phpservers
use-fcgi-app php-fpm
server server1 /run/php/myapp.sock proto fcgi
backend static
server server2 /var/run/nginx.sock
fcgi-app php-fpm
log-stderr global
docroot /var/www/myapp
index index.php
Now wordpress works only when the url includes index.php. Without index.php the server returns 404 error.
I want to rewrite the url from
```auto
http://example.com/index.php/hello-world/
```
to
```auto
http://example.me/hello-world/
```
In nginx we use the below config to work
```auto
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
```
Is their any solution like this in Haproxy
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### Author:  [@nebulon42](https://discourse.haproxy.org/u/nebulon42)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2021, 6:41pm UTC](https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/rewrite-url-in-haproxy/6432/2 "2021-11-24T18:41:05Z")
It took me some time to find out, but I was successful with
- setting the script name to index.php in the fcgi app with `set-param SCRIPT_NAME /index.php` unless the request did already contain a PHP file
- since the admin backend has its own index.php in `/wp-admin/index.php` there needs to be a separate rule that sets the script name to that when we are accessing an admin URL unless the request did already contain a PHP file
- doing nothing with the path in the frontend/backend
Full fcgi app:
```auto
fcgi-app wordpress
docroot /var/www/html
log-stderr global
acl is_php path -i -m end .php
acl is_admin path -i -m beg /wp-admin
set-param SCRIPT_NAME /index.php unless is_php is_admin
set-param SCRIPT_NAME /wp-admin/index.php if is_admin !is_php
set-param HTTPS on
```
I was not successful with
- using `index`. As the documentation states this _appends_ the name after the path, so this won’t work
- using `path-info`, this did nothing for me
- doing something with `http-request set-path ...` as this changes the `REQUEST_URI`
What really helped me in finding the solution was adding a line in `wp-config.php` that prints out `$_SERVER` for every request. There you then see what values `SCRIPT_NAME`, `REQUEST_URI` and others have.
E.g. if you are running php-fpm in a container that logs to stderr you could add
```auto
$stderr = fopen( 'php://stderr', 'w' );
fwrite($stderr, print_r($_SERVER, true) . "\n");
fclose($stderr);
```
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### Author:  [@nebulon42](https://discourse.haproxy.org/u/nebulon42)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2021, 8:23pm UTC](https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/rewrite-url-in-haproxy/6432/3 "2021-11-25T20:23:25Z")
Cannot edit the above anymore. 🙄
Just to note that I had problems with the login and to solve that one should change the index.php set-param to `set-param SCRIPT_NAME /index.php if !is_php !is_admin`. Not 100% sure why the “unless” version has problems and the “if” version works, but that is what I saw.