Permalink 404 Problem: 2.8 Style

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet but….

In most cases the problem occurs because wordpress is in a sub directory and the htaccess is set incorrectly to reflect this. If your wordpress files are in a subdirectory.. ex. https://yoururl.com/wordpress then you need to change this line in your htaccess file within the sub directory folder:

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

to

RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]

where wordpress is the name of your subdirectory folder.

I hope this helps.

Thanks Matthias for the suggestion above! That was the key I was looking for to finally solve this annoying and mysterious issue with Apache and AllowOverride.

Actually, I changed the code you suggested to read AllowOverride All, instead of None, and that did the trick.

So to summarize my experience (with WP 2.9.2 and Ubuntu server 2.6.31):

edit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

find the <Directory> section for your wordpress website and edit as follows:

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

Then restart apache: sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Voilà! Thanks again and hope this helps.