wordpress permalinks not working - htaccess seems ok but getting 404 error on pages

Question

I updated the permalink structure to /%postname%/ and this updated my .htaccess with:

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
Rewri         


        

Answer 1

This is now solved. I hadn't enabled mod_rewrite. So I did this:

$ sudo a2enmod rewrite
Enabling module rewrite.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  service apache2 restart
$ service apache2 restart
 * Restarting web server apache2