Woocommerce REST API 404 error

Question

Since woocommerce released the 2.1 version with REST API feature, I tried to use it: I activated the API on my woocommerce admin panel but when I try to call the curl: http:

Answer 1

Try going, on the Admin Panel, to Settings -> Permalinks. On Default Settings radio group, select the "Post name" one. Save the changes.

Worked for me; hope for you too. :)

Source: this blog post.

EDIT: Website is not available, so I put its Wayback Machine URL.

Answer 2

Apart from answer shared above: Settings -> Permalinks. On Default Settings radio group, select the "Post name" one. Save the changes.

I also had to manually update .htaccess file to reflect the changes I made (permalinks to "Post name", and the little Wordpress help text shown on the bottom of the page was really helpful:

If your .htaccess file was writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so these are the mod_rewrite rules you should have in your .htaccess file. Click in the field and press CTRL + a to select all.

Basically copy the new mod_rewrite rules as instructed by Wordpress above and manually update your .htaccess file! doing this worked for me!

Answer 3

I was having this same issue. I had forgotten to turn on the pretty perma links, but doing that didn't solve it for me.

I also had to update my apache virtual host file because the AllowOverride was defaulted to None.

<Directory /var/www/wordpress/>
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
            AllowOverride All
            Order allow,deny
            allow from all
</Directory>

Once I updated this, and reloaded the Apache service, the API worked for me.