Permalinks argghhh!!!!

  • Resolved swoolrich

    (@swoolrich)


    7 years, 9 months ago

    I’ve not give a link to the page as it’s not yet online.

    I have a wordpress.com site I want to repatriate to my web server, which is Debian / Apache2 / MariaDB.

    I exported the site from wordpress.com using the built-in tool.

    I created a new site on my web server, created it’s database and installed WordPress.
    Then I imported the wordpress.com website.

    It worked but I wanted the ‘Name’ permalinks, so I changed it in settings, and got a 404 for anything other than the home page. If I go back to the default all is well.

    There is NO problem rewriting .htaccess, and mod_rewrite is loaded.

    I’m stumped.

    Can only think I need to start again, resetting the permalinks first.

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    I have a wordpress.com site

    You are at the wordpress.org forums.

    Is your site wordpress.com blog.

    If not, then I’m assuing it’s a self-hosted site.

    If I go back to the default all is well.

    If that works, then try reading Using_Permalinks before setting a custom permalink structure again. If clearing your Permalinks does not alleviate the issue, this could be attributed to anything from a web server configuration to a bad WordPress install.

    Thread Starter swoolrich

    (@swoolrich)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    Found I needed to add the following to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:

    # Added for Pretty Permalinks
    <Directory /var/www/html/xxx/wordpress>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    </Directory>

    All seems fine now.

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    Glad to know it 🙂

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