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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Check out <a href=“https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-migrate-wordpress-from-shared-hosting-to-a-cloud-server-with-zero-downtime”>How to Migrate WordPress from Shared Hosting to a Cloud Server with Zero Downtime</a>
Also, be sure that your VirtualHost in Apache has ‘AllowOverride All’ defined. This will ensure your rewrite rules are allowed.
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