Permalink not working after move to digital ocean of my wordpress site

You should have correct .htaccess in location of WordPress’s index.php file. This is in place where you installed WordPress, usually /var/www/html.

Open .htaccess file in your favourite text editor:

nano /var/www/html/.htaccess

Make sure it have following:

# 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

Optional: Just in case to be sure it will use latest changes restart Apache with:

sudo systemctl restart apache

Thanks to all your effort to answer my question. The problem was with my domain. The step is different for SSL Enabled domain. I got answer from Enable mod_rewrite in apache2 SSL Enabled Domain

Thanks again

In case anyone came looking for an answer to “Ubuntu 16.04 One-click Wordpress install” permalinks not working, the solution for me was to enable mod_rewrite using:

sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo service apache2 restart

Hope this helps