Wordpress Permalinks not working on Ubuntu 14.04

I had this issue with pretty permalinks myself, and the solution was to edit my vhosts conf file for that site. Here’s what worked for me:

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
	ServerName broseph.com.au
	
	DocumentRoot /var/www/broseph.com.au/public_html
	<Directory />
		Options FollowSymLinks
		AllowOverride None
	</Directory>
	<Directory /var/www/broseph.com.au/public_html>
		Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
		AllowOverride All
		Order allow,deny
		allow from all
	</Directory>

	ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
	CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

• Also make sure your .htaccess file has the proper permissions for WP to write to it. You’ll see an error if it doesn’t.
• FYI: conf files are in /etc/apache2/sites-available
• Don’t forget to restart apache after editing the conf file: sudo service apache2 restart

My issue was from making the update from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 was that my apache2.conf was not correct configured:

In terminal type:

sudo gedit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Find:

<Directory /var/www/>

And make sure the AllowOverride directive is set to All.

After I made that change I could use custom permalink structures in Wordpess again, hope this helps anyone as it did me!

you have to enable mode_rewrite.c for apache more info after enable mode_rewrite , make sure you have .htaccess file in the public_html :

# 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

and restart the apache server

sudo service apache2 restart