By Dhruve Shah
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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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!
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