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Wordpress Permalinks not working on Ubuntu 14.04

  • Posted September 24, 2014

I have followed this guide, and everything worked correctly except that I cannot change the Wordpress permalink setting. I have followed the guide, and other solutions to questions here, but none are working for some reason. On WP, when I change the permalinks, and go to the original domain.com/?p=123, it changes the url to the correct domain.com/month/day/post-title, however it takes me to the apache 404 page then.

Any help is appreciated.

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menasheh • November 23, 2016

To clarify, the problem in this scenario is that .htaccess is not enabled. To fix that, you add AllowOverride All for your site’s directory. In my case, I did that in apache.conf.

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sylvialowik • May 11, 2015

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!

tlhaas • September 25, 2014

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
tlhaas • September 25, 2014

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
tlhaas • September 25, 2014

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
tlhaas • September 25, 2014

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
tlhaas • September 25, 2014

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
tlhaas • September 25, 2014

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
tlhaas • September 25, 2014

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
tlhaas • September 25, 2014

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
tlhaas • September 25, 2014

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