Permalinks clash with Directory Name

the problem is the .htaccess mod-rewrite that sends the “data” from the permalink to index.php works only if there is no actual directory with that name …

try the following, open the .htaccess file in your blog’s root directory … it should look like this:

rewriteEngine on
# BEGIN WordPress 

# requested URL_path does not resolve to existing file
rewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
# and requested URL-path does not resolve to existing directory
rewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# rewrite the request to WordPress
rewriterule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress

and add this on a new line right after “# BEGIN WordPress “

# If requested URL-path does start with "/ipl/"
rewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/ipl(.*)$
# rewrite the request to WordPress
rewriterule . /index.php [L]

I donot have any .htaccess file in the directory. What should I do now?

Every wordpress installation has one, probably your ftp client doesn’t show system protected files … try using the Robots Meta plugin https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/robots-meta/. It should let you edit the .htaccess file from within the wordpress dashboard

Ok, this is how the .htaccess file looks

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

# END WordPress

What should be the changes?