permalinks not working on local linux installation – mod_rewrite is enabled

  • Hello, permalinks are working fine on my live site, but not on my local ubuntu xampp installation. Mod_rewrite is definitely loaded, and has the allow_override option set to “all”. I tried using chown to change the owner to root – still didn’t work. All permissions are set up fine and wordpress can write to the file.

    Any ideas?

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  • Is there a .htaccess in the main WordPress directory?

    Has WordPress been able to write to your .htaccess after modifying the permalink structure?

    Thread Starter cclofton

    (@cclofton)

    yes and yes. WordPress doesn’t ask me to copy and paste the change, and it clearly changes the htaccess file when I ask it to.

    Thread Starter cclofton

    (@cclofton)

    something that just occurred to me…I’m using virtual hosts. I’m going to have a little experiment and see if that’s the problem. I can’t see why it would be, but you never know

    Just to clarify:

    apache/conf/httpd.conf

    Find:
    #LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

    Remove the #

    Find:
    AllowOverride

    Change to:
    AllowOverride All

    Save.

    Restart Server.

    Thread Starter cclofton

    (@cclofton)

    yup – all correct!

    Thread Starter cclofton

    (@cclofton)

    ok, I have it working! I didn’t check to see that there are multiple instances of allowoverride, 3, in my httpd.conf. I only changed the first one, thinking it was the only one, but now I’ve changed all 3 it works fine.

    Thanks for the help

    aha! Had me scratching my head. Glad you sorted it ??

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