Error: The Apache mod_rewrite module is not enabled…

edit: Fix didn’t work.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by Llewen.

I’ve double, triple, quadruple, quintuple, sextuple, checked, rechecked, gone back months later and done it all again. mod_rewrite is absolutely enabled. It’s in my /etc/apache2/mods-available, the symlink is in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled. .htaccess contains the following code:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

/usr/lib/apache2/modules contains mod_rewrite.so, so that’s there as well. phpinfo ( ) also lists it, as follows.

Loaded Modules core mod_so mod_watchdog http_core mod_log_config mod_logio mod_version mod_unixd mod_access_compat mod_alias mod_auth_basic mod_authn_core mod_authn_file mod_authz_core mod_authz_host mod_authz_user mod_autoindex mod_cgi mod_deflate mod_dir mod_env mod_filter mod_headers mod_mime prefork mod_negotiation mod_php7 mod_reqtimeout mod_rewrite etc.

I’ve also tried AllowOverride All, just to be sure that wasn’t the issue. It made no difference.

Here’s a link to the phpinfo ( ) as a pdf. I tried to remove all the possible dox data, but I can’t be sure I got it all. I’ll delete the file and remove the link when I know you have it.

phpinfo

On the off chance that you think Mod Security is the issue, I have attempted to disable it, to no effect.

I’m not really good with WordPress or with PHP, so this was a bit of fun, but as far as I can see, unless I am running into permissions issues, apache_mod_loaded always returns FALSE.

I ran this code on various bits of the admin page, using different mod names and just a random string, and it always returned FALSE. But perhaps I was just plugging it into the wrong place. I’m a hack when it comes to scripting. I’m not really skilled.

<div>
<?php
if ( apache_mod_loaded( 'mod_rewrite' ) ) {
    echo "TRUE";
} else {
    echo "FALSE";
}
?>
</div>

I think I figured it out. My little joke backfired on me. Changing the server string messed up the contents of the “$is_apache” variable. That might well be why a bunch of other things that I’ve never been able to figure out are broken in my WordPress. I’ll post back when I know for sure.