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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [permalinks not working after following permalinks guide (404 error)](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-not-working-after-following-permalinks-guide-404-error/)
 *  Thread Starter [geoffdigital](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geoffdigital/)
 * (@geoffdigital)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-not-working-after-following-permalinks-guide-404-error/#post-4998873)
 * jayseae,
 * Whew. I found it. The solution is really simple, but it took some digging around
   to find it. I’m going to blame my troubles on sleep deprivation and being a little
   rusty with Apache.
 * I’m using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. When I installed Apache, in the /etc/apache2/apache2.
   conf file the following existed:
 * <Directory /var/www/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Require
   all granted </Directory>
 * The AllowOverride None setting is what was clobbering my permalinks, even with
   the .htaccess file settings. My site is under /var/www/example.com/, so it was
   being affected.
 * When I changed the None to All, and restarted Apache (sudo service apache2 restart),
   everything worked beautifully.
 * Thank you very much for taking the time to reply. I hope that others will find
   this post useful. For me it’s always the little gotchas that really slow me down.
 * On to blogging!
 * Geoff
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [permalinks not working after following permalinks guide (404 error)](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-not-working-after-following-permalinks-guide-404-error/)
 *  Thread Starter [geoffdigital](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geoffdigital/)
 * (@geoffdigital)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-not-working-after-following-permalinks-guide-404-error/#post-4998854)
 * jayseae,
 * Thnaks for the reply. I tried all of your suggestions, but I am still getting
   the error. My guess is that it has something to do with my Apache and/or server
   setup and not necessarily the installation of WordPress itself.
 * I am going to keep searching. When I find the solution I will definitely reply
   back to this post. I definitely do not want other people running into this problem.
 * (I have been slow as well on getting this to work. I have a bunch of irons in
   the fire at the moment.)
 * Geoff

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