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Kar19
Asked: 2015-03-13 07:03:26 +0800 CST

Why do I get 404 on LAMP Permalinks (Using wordpress)

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I have been working on a website on an ubuntu server (amazone) and I get 404s entering pages.

I'll give all the information I can regarding the problem.

On WordPress

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Refresh page:

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I followed this tutorial:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/solved-permalinks-working-in-apache2-ubuntu-1010?replies=6

And nothing helped.

I found this post https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-does-not-work-apart-from-default?replies=12 - so I entered I entered the file: /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf

and didn't find AllowOverride None to change to AllowOverride All So I added it myself here: enter image description here

Restarted apache, and I got an error. I refreshed the website, and found out it's not working..

Undo AllowOverride All from 000-default.conf

What is the solution for this? I have never worked with Linux servers, so I'll need a very clear and well explained answer please.

BTW, This is what WP generates in my .htaccess file: 

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

# END WordPress
apache2

2 Answers

  1. Open a terminal and type:

    sudo gedit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

    Find this:

    <Directory /var/www/>

    Change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All

    Then run:

    sudo a2enmod rewrite

    Dont forget to restart apache2:

    sudo service apache2 restart
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  2. You can check if there exist an htaccess file in your WordPress home directory as shown above. If it is not there create one:

    $ sudo nano /var/www/html/.htaccess

    and copy paste the below to it

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

    Press ctrl+x and press y to save the file. And restart apache by

    $ sudo service apache2 restart

    You would want to tell apache to follow your .htaccess file. You can do this by editing the apache.conf file

    $sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache.conf

    Scroll down to the line By default it will be:

    <Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>

    change the value of AllowOverride to All so now it becomes:

    <Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>

    Press ctrl+x and press y to save the configuration file. In order to make this changes to server first enable the mod_rewrite by.

    $ sudo a2enmod rewrite

    And then restart the server

    $ sudo service apache2 restart

    Done!

    Source: https://www.wst.space/riddling-with-wordpress-permalink-setup-issues/

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