Question

Htacces not found Ubuntu 20.04 Apache 2 Wordpress 1 click installation

Posted on December 29, 2022
Apache Ubuntu 20.04 WordPress
Asked by NeverDevelopment

Hi, I am logged in as a root user. I could enter /var/www/html. But I dont find the htaccess file? I installed WordPress 5.8 Ubuntu 20.04 with the one click installer. What do I have to do to access the htaccess file? Do I have to set up AllowOverride all? I cant get into /etc/apache2/apache2.conf as a root user. It says permission denied. Or do I have to install something?

Thank you in advance

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KFSys

Site Moderator

• December 30, 2022

Accepted Answer

Hi @neverdevelopment,

It’s strange that you can’t edit your Apache2 files however it’s not necessary to do so. The changes you are looking for can be added in your .htaccess file.

To be sure your DocumentRoot is /var/www/html, you can check your Apache2 website’s conf like cat /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf . In there you’ll see the DocumentRoot, it should be /var/www/html but check to be sure.

Now, once you are sure the DocumentRoot path, create the .htaccess file

touch /var/www/html/.htaccess

Don’t forget to change the file’s ownership

chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html/.htaccess

Now, in the file, you can add the standard WordPress .htaccess info:

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

# END WordPress

That should be it.

Bobby Iliev

Site Moderator

• December 30, 2022

Hi there,

You don’t need to make any changes to the Apache config file as the AllowOverride is already enabled in the Apache virtual host for the default site here:

/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf

You can create a new .htaccess file with the following command:

touch /var/www/html/.htaccess
chown www-data: /var/www/html/.htaccess

Here is an example of a default .htaccess file content that you could then add to the file:

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

# END WordPress

Another alternative way of quickly generating the file without manually creating it is to go to the wp-admin -> click on settings -> then Permalinks -> change the permalinks settings and click save. This will automatically create a new .htaccess file for you.

Hope that this helps!

Best,

Bobby