Permalink changed after moving website

Do you know how I can change the permission of wordpress so it has a user level permission?

Assuming your wordpress files are installed in /var/www/wordpress, and apache is running as group www-data, I think this will do it;

As root:

chown -R [username]:www-data /var/www/wordpress

…and this should set file and directory permissions recursively:

cd /var/www/wordpress

find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

Obvious permissions exceptions will have to be reset on the uploads folder and .htaccess if you intend to use the uploads folder locally, or if you want wordpress to update .htaccess automatically.

I think all those commands are correct. You may want to verify them first, though.

Another possible issue: Have you ever attempted to install the wordpress package from the Ubuntu repository on that server using apt-get from the command line or synaptic?

This is helpful….To bad it is not in the setup instructions someplace.

That’s sort of an unreasonable expectation.

– But here’s some instructions that might help put it to rest for you. I’ve used this method a couple dozen times with solid success, and no .htaccess or permalink issues ever.

This is one Ubuntu/WordPress install method that works reliably for me – strictly as a personal installation. This assumes that all the prerequisites are installed and functioning correctly, and you have not attempted to install WordPress using aptitude or the package manager. Although the instructions are generic, I used this method on my own laptop with Ubuntu. This gives absolutely no consideration at all to “server” security, application hardening, FTP or SSH. This setup is not intended to face the WAN.

Open a terminal:

username@username-laptop:~$ sudo -i
[sudo] password for username: [password]
root@username-laptop:~# cd /var/www
root@username-laptop:/var/www# mkdir wordpress
root@username-laptop:/var/www# chown username:www-data wordpress
root@username-laptop:/var/www# chmod 0750 wordpress
root@username-laptop:/var/www# logout
username@username-laptop:~$ ln -s /var/www/wordpress /home/username/wordpress
username@username-laptop:~$ exit

You now have a WordPress directory at /var/www/wordpress with owner [username] and group www-data. You also now have a symlink/shortcut to that directory in Home.

Download the latest WordPress package and extract the files. Edit and rename wp-config-sample.php per the WordPress installation instructions. Copy the entire contents of the extracted WordPress package, open the symlink in your home folder that points to /var/www/wordpress and paste all of the copied content into that directory.

Point the browser to //localhost/wordpress and begin the install.

You can now just open the symlink/shortcut you created in Home to add your themes and plugins and edit files without any ownership issues and no more command line sudo’ing or “sudo nautilus” every time you want access to WordPress files.

Unfortunately I have done these steps without any issue.

Yes. I can see you’ve had no issues at all. 🙂

…take a look at this then. Maybe it will put you onto something helpful.

/etc/apache2/sites-available/default

AllowOverride None ??