Clean default wordpress installation, all fine, just when I change permalinks in wordpress settings to post name, the default wordpress post is given 404 not found. Any help would be appreciated.
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Ok, found the solution,
<Directory /path/to/site>
#add the following setting to allow .htaccess in your web dir to work
AllowOverride All
#other settings ---
</Directory>
and thats in the /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file
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