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1. nalybuites
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   I have a new WordPress 2.8 blog running on my local server (sitting in the same room as me). Using ugly permalinks, all pages are accessible. However, when I change the permalink structure to anything else, I receive Apache2 404 errors.

   My .htaccess file looks as follows:
   

   Options +FollowSymLinks
   <Directory /var/www/blog>
           AllowOverride Options
   </Directory>
   # BEGIN WordPress
   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
           RewriteEngine On
           RewriteBase /blog/
           RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
           RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
           RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
   </IfModule>
   # END WordPress

   Both WebSVN and phpMyAdmin are accessible from http://domain.com/websvn and http://domain.com/phpmyadmin, respectively.

   I have tried all suggested fixed on the forums, including:

   • Adding custom category and tag permalink structures
   • Adding FollowSymLinks and AllowOverride All
   • Etc.

   Does anybody have any other suggestions?

2. nalybuites
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   I have also attempted to remove any Aliases (e.g., phpmyadmin and websvn mentioned above) in order to remove any conflicts. I even removed phpMyAdmin completely, but to no avail.

3. nalybuites
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   I figured it out. After performing a full reinstall of Ubuntu Server Edition (I have been meaning to anyways), permalinks still didn't work. For whatever reason, Apache2 wasn't picking/processing the .htaccess file. I added the following lines to the apache2.conf file in /etc/apache2:
   

   # Include the .htaccess file for WordPress
   Include /var/www/wordpress/.htaccess

   Once I restarted Apache, it processed the rewite rules and everything works fine!

4. nalybuites
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   P.S. That last post only makes sense if I tell you that I changed the directory from /var/www/blog to /var/www/wordpress

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