Question
Anyone having problems with WordPress .htaccess moving from MAMP to DigitalOcean?
- Posted on July 22, 2013
Asked by sandiboudreau
I had a Wordpress Site setup using the latest version of Wordpress using MAMP. Just moved it to DigitalOcean and the site permalinks/URLs are all not working now. I haven’t changed anything except of course the database info in wp-config.php.
Are there any specific things to be aware of on DO VPS?
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Also, be sure that your VirtualHost in Apache has ‘AllowOverride All’ defined. This will ensure your rewrite rules are allowed.
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