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

use below .htaccess code, just put your project name (which is in www directory) in below code

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /project_name/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /project_name/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Thanks

Answer 2

Yet another possibility: I just updated my macOS which always screws up the Apache config file. Among other things, I also had to re-enable the mod_rewrite module. Find the line that says,

#LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so

And remove the hash so it says,

LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so

Answer 3

One more thing to check if this describes your problem:

• htaccess and mod_rewrite are set up correctly
• 404 error on some permalinks but not others

Ensure that there are no existing .php files or directories in the same folder as your Wordpress install with names matching a Wordpress permalink.

For example, if you have the following Wordpress page permalinks:

 example.com/name_one/
 example.com/name_two/

and the directory containing your Wordpress install includes the following file:

 name_one.php

then this will be the result:

• http://example.com/name_two/ – this permalink will work
• http://example.com/name_one/ – this permalink will NOT work

More importantly, the second URL will give a 404 instead of running name_one.php, meaning this problem is hard to diagnose, as it can give the same symptoms as an incorrectly written .htaccess file.

Answer 4

You would want to tell apache to follow your .htaccess file. You can do this by editing the apache.conf file

$sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache.conf

Scroll down to the line By default it will be:

<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>

change the value of AllowOverride to All so now it becomes:

<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>

Press ctrl+x and press y to save the configuration file. In order to make this changes to server first enable the mod_rewrite by.

$ sudo a2enmod rewrite

And then restart the server

$ sudo service apache2 restart

Done!

Source: https://www.wst.space/riddling-with-wordpress-permalink-setup-issues/

Answer 5

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                                                                              

Answer 6

If you are setting up a new or cloned site on ubuntu, remember to symlink the site configuration file e.g. /etc/apache2/sites-available/your-file.conf to the /etc/apache2/sites-enabled folder so apache loads it.

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Just run: sudo a2ensite your-file.conf, then sudo service apache2 reload.

sudo a2dissite your-file.conf to remove symlink i.e. disable config.