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Ubuntu 12.04 - LAMP - WordPress : .htaccess errors
- Posted March 14, 2013
I created a LAMPed Ubuntu 12.04 droplet, fresh from the menu. Then added fred as a root user. Logged in as fred I installed Wordpress. Everything looks great, I can add posts to the blog, but …
I cannot change the permalinks setting in the Wordpress dashboard without getting a “You should update your .htaccess now” error. There IS NO .htaccess file. So I created one in /var/www/ with the suggested settings from the Wordpress error. After restarting the apache service I still get the error when attempting to change the permalinks setting. I’ve chmodded /var/www/ to 777 - still get the error.
I’m about to go bald through pulling out my hair. Any suggestions?
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Edit your VirtualHost config making sure AllowOverride is set to all.
Hope this will fix your problem who are facing even after going through all the steps
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
add these lines below “Document root”
ServerAdmin admin@example.com ServerName example.com ServerAlias www.example.com DocumentRoot /var/www/example.com/public_html
<Directory /var/www/> AllowOverride all </Directory>
or in case of multiple websites
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/example.com.conf
add these lines below “Document root”
<Directory /var/www/example.com/> AllowOverride all </Directory>
then restart apache
i was running my wordpress server on var/www/public_html/blog
If i was changing permalinks with post name then it is showing 404 page. I tried many methods from this DO articles but nothing solved. help me with detailed instructions
yep, the AllowOverride in the Virtual Host config was the problem. Thanks.
Mark Provan’s answer fixed it for me, I didn’t think to do the “a2enmod rewrite” command, and that’s what fixed it.
My environment: LAMP <br> <br>What I did: <br> <br>sudo a2enmod rewrite <br>sudo service apache2 restart <br>gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available <br> <Directory /> <br> …stuff… <br> AllowOverride All <br> </Directory> <br> <Directory /var/www/> <br> …stuff… <br> AllowOverride All <br> <br><strong>Make sure you change the AllowOverride to All</strong> <br> <br>sudo service apache2 restart <br> <br>Then change the permissions so that wordpress is able to modify the file. I believe someone posted it up above, or you can find it here http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
@ mkstlouis: <br>Do you have multiple sites setup? If so make sure not to only edit: <br>/etc/apache2/sites-available/default <br>(setting AllowOverride to all) <br>But any other site you have enabled in that directory will need the same ‘AllowOverride all’
I spent way too many hours and recreating droplets over and over and just can’t get the permalinks to work. I was hoping to have one of my sites up to test performance and what-not. Instead I just getting really annoyed.
@eric: There isn’t a “correct” root directory, it’s just a matter of preference. You can host it anywhere you want. And yes, AllowOverride applies to DigitalOcean servers.
Can we confirm that var/www/ is the correct “root” folder for wordpress and updating/adding the .htaccess file? <br> <br>Additionally, does this apply to DO servers for AllowOverride? <br>https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#allowoverride <br>