WordPress permalinks tried everything

First thing is you have to enable the URL rewrite module:

a2enmod rewrite

Second thing you have to edit the entry in your apache conf file.:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  here you have your regular stuff
</VirtualHost>

<Directory />
  Options FollowSymLinks
  AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/example.com/public_html>
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
  AllowOverride All
  Order allow,deny
  allow from all
</Directory>

@jon: no … I didin’t come across that one (what does it do?)

But I solved my issue.

So I started fresh w/ Ubuntu 14.04 32bit …

• Set up mySQL just following onscreen instructions.
• Installed phpmyadmin per https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-format-digitalocean-articles-for-publication
• Added <pre>ServerName localhost</pre> to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
• Edited

<pre> <Directory /var/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Require all granted </Directory> </pre>

to say <pre>AllowOverride All</pre>.

I think ^this is the part I was missing.

Then ran <pre>a2enmod rewrite</pre>.

Installed using Duplicator and set permalinks to Post Name.

Alls well that ends well, well that’s what I say.

@jon: no … I didin’t come across that one (what does it do?)

But I solved my issue.

So I started fresh w/ Ubuntu 14.04 32bit …

• Set up mySQL just following onscreen instructions.
• Installed phpmyadmin per https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-format-digitalocean-articles-for-publication
• Added <pre>ServerName localhost</pre> to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
• Edited

<pre> <Directory /var/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Require all granted </Directory> </pre>

to say <pre>AllowOverride All</pre>.

I think ^this is the part I was missing.

Then ran <pre>a2enmod rewrite</pre>.

Installed using Duplicator and set permalinks to Post Name.

Alls well that ends well, well that’s what I say.

@jon: no … I didin’t come across that one (what does it do?)

But I solved my issue.

So I started fresh w/ Ubuntu 14.04 32bit …

• Set up mySQL just following onscreen instructions.
• Installed phpmyadmin per https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-format-digitalocean-articles-for-publication
• Added <pre>ServerName localhost</pre> to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
• Edited

<pre> <Directory /var/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Require all granted </Directory> </pre>

to say <pre>AllowOverride All</pre>.

I think ^this is the part I was missing.

Then ran <pre>a2enmod rewrite</pre>.

Installed using Duplicator and set permalinks to Post Name.

Alls well that ends well, well that’s what I say.

@jon: no … I didin’t come across that one (what does it do?)

But I solved my issue.

So I started fresh w/ Ubuntu 14.04 32bit …

• Set up mySQL just following onscreen instructions.
• Installed phpmyadmin per https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-format-digitalocean-articles-for-publication
• Added <pre>ServerName localhost</pre> to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
• Edited

<pre> <Directory /var/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Require all granted </Directory> </pre>

to say <pre>AllowOverride All</pre>.

I think ^this is the part I was missing.

Then ran <pre>a2enmod rewrite</pre>.

Installed using Duplicator and set permalinks to Post Name.

Alls well that ends well, well that’s what I say.

@jon: no … I didin’t come across that one (what does it do?)

But I solved my issue.

So I started fresh w/ Ubuntu 14.04 32bit …

• Set up mySQL just following onscreen instructions.
• Installed phpmyadmin per https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-format-digitalocean-articles-for-publication
• Added <pre>ServerName localhost</pre> to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
• Edited

<pre> <Directory /var/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Require all granted </Directory> </pre>

to say <pre>AllowOverride All</pre>.

I think ^this is the part I was missing.

Then ran <pre>a2enmod rewrite</pre>.

Installed using Duplicator and set permalinks to Post Name.

Alls well that ends well, well that’s what I say.

@jon: no … I didin’t come across that one (what does it do?)

But I solved my issue.

So I started fresh w/ Ubuntu 14.04 32bit …

• Set up mySQL just following onscreen instructions.
• Installed phpmyadmin per https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-format-digitalocean-articles-for-publication
• Added <pre>ServerName localhost</pre> to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
• Edited

<pre> <Directory /var/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Require all granted </Directory> </pre>

to say <pre>AllowOverride All</pre>.

I think ^this is the part I was missing.

Then ran <pre>a2enmod rewrite</pre>.

Installed using Duplicator and set permalinks to Post Name.

Alls well that ends well, well that’s what I say.

@jon: no … I didin’t come across that one (what does it do?)

But I solved my issue.

So I started fresh w/ Ubuntu 14.04 32bit …

• Set up mySQL just following onscreen instructions.
• Installed phpmyadmin per https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-format-digitalocean-articles-for-publication
• Added <pre>ServerName localhost</pre> to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
• Edited

<pre> <Directory /var/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Require all granted </Directory> </pre>

to say <pre>AllowOverride All</pre>.

I think ^this is the part I was missing.

Then ran <pre>a2enmod rewrite</pre>.

Installed using Duplicator and set permalinks to Post Name.

Alls well that ends well, well that’s what I say.

@jon: no … I didin’t come across that one (what does it do?)

But I solved my issue.

So I started fresh w/ Ubuntu 14.04 32bit …

• Set up mySQL just following onscreen instructions.
• Installed phpmyadmin per https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-format-digitalocean-articles-for-publication
• Added <pre>ServerName localhost</pre> to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
• Edited

<pre> <Directory /var/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Require all granted </Directory> </pre>

to say <pre>AllowOverride All</pre>.

I think ^this is the part I was missing.

Then ran <pre>a2enmod rewrite</pre>.

Installed using Duplicator and set permalinks to Post Name.

Alls well that ends well, well that’s what I say.

@jon: no … I didin’t come across that one (what does it do?)

But I solved my issue.

So I started fresh w/ Ubuntu 14.04 32bit …

• Set up mySQL just following onscreen instructions.
• Installed phpmyadmin per https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-format-digitalocean-articles-for-publication
• Added <pre>ServerName localhost</pre> to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
• Edited

<pre> <Directory /var/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Require all granted </Directory> </pre>

to say <pre>AllowOverride All</pre>.

I think ^this is the part I was missing.

Then ran <pre>a2enmod rewrite</pre>.

Installed using Duplicator and set permalinks to Post Name.

Alls well that ends well, well that’s what I say.