Support permalink structure without leading index.php #91

Feature Request

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Describe your use case and the problem you are facing

Possibly related to #56? I'm not totally sure what's going on there since pretty permalinks seem to work just fine.

I 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:

It looks like wordpress relies on the got_url_rewrite function to decide whether our server supports url rewriting/pretty permalinks, and if not adds that leading index.php.

https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/0c3e42c238fc2ca907bbe649160598f39267d812/src/wp-admin/options-permalink.php#L79-L81

Describe the solution you'd like

Filter got_url_rewrite in the router script:

add_filter( 'got_url_rewrite', '__return_true' );

Any objections?

As 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.