By Jaden Drury
When I try to change my permalink settings from Plain to any of the other options, all pages but the homepage then say that the page is not found. I have already tried deleting the .htaccess file so that it re-generates.
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Hello,
What you would need to check is the following.
- Make sure that Apache mod_rewrite is enabled, you can check that with this command:
apachectl -M | grep -i rewrite
- If you don’t see the module, you can enable it with this command:
sudo a2enmod rewrite
Restart apache after running this command
- Make sure that AllowOverride is enabled for your htaccess file. In your Apache Vhost for the site in question (should be something like this:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/mysite.conf) make sure that you have the following somewjere after theServerNameline:
<Directory /var/www/mysite>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby
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