Permalink not working on ubuntu/apache2

What happens, do you get 404 errors? .. blank page? ..

Every change i make i get ” HTTP 404 – File not found ! ”

Try adding the symlinks option to the top your htaccess..

Options +FollowSymLinks

Use the + to enable the option, without the plus, you’re just inheriting (iirc).

Not a big apache user, only in WAMP environments, so forgive me if the above doesn’t help at all… ??

I have made the changes

ServerAdmin [email protected]
ServerName test.com
        ServerAlias https://www.test.com

DocumentRoot /home/admin/path/siteroot
	<Directory />
		Options +FollowSymLinks
		AllowOverride All
	</Directory>

<Directory /home/admin/path/siteroot>
		Options Indexes +FollowSymLinks MultiViews
		AllowOverride All
		Order allow,deny
		allow from all
</Directory>

	ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
	<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
		AllowOverride All
		Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
		Order allow,deny
		Allow from all
	</Directory>

	ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

	# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
	# alert, emerg.
	LogLevel warn

	CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
	ServerSignature On

    Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
    <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
    </Directory>

<Directory /home/admin/path/siteroot>
		Options +FollowSymLinks
		AllowOverride All
</Directory>

BUT NO IMPROVEMENTS ! THE SAME OLD 404 ??

Any other ideas?

Thank you in advance!

What’s showing up in the apache error logs?

[Wed Dec 23 21:37:10 2009] [error] [client 92.83.218.50] PHP Notice: XML error: > required at line 36, column 15 in /home/admin/path/test.com/wp-includes/class-simplepie.php on line 1792, referer: https://www.test.com/wp-admin/
[Wed Dec 23 21:37:15 2009] [error] [client 92.83.218.50] File does not exist: /home/admin/path/test.com/favicon.ico
[Wed Dec 23 21:37:17 2009] [error] [client 92.83.218.50] File does not exist: /home/admin/path/test.com/favicon.ico
[Wed Dec 23 21:37:20 2009] [error] [client 92.83.218.50] File does not exist: /home/admin/path/test.com/favicon.ico
[Wed Dec 23 21:37:26 2009] [error] [client 92.83.218.50] File does not exist: /home/admin/path/test.com/favicon.ico
[Wed Dec 23 21:37:31 2009] [error] [client 92.83.218.50] File does not exist: /home/admin/path/test.com/wp-content/themes/images/favicon.ico
[Wed Dec 23 21:37:32 2009] [error] [client 92.83.218.50] File does not exist: /home/admin/path/test.com/radio-dance, referer: https://www.test.com/
[Wed Dec 23 21:37:32 2009] [error] [client 92.83.218.50] File does not exist: /home/admin/path/test.com/favicon.ico
[Wed Dec 23 21:37:46 2009] [error] [client 92.83.218.50] File does not exist: /home/admin/path/test.com/favicon.ico
[Wed Dec 23 21:39:03 2009] [error] [client 92.83.218.50] File does not exist: /home/admin/path/test.com/favicon.ico
[Wed Dec 23 21:40:39 2009] [error] [client 66.249.71.250] File does not exist: /home/admin/path/test.com/dedicatii-radio.html

92.83.218.50 – it’s my ip. and these errors are because of not working permalink. I think….

I don’t use Apache extensively enough to understand your configuration above, but i’d guess there’s something there that needs adjustment (log looks fine though).

I use Uniform Server for my local testing environment, so it comes with Apache, PHP etc.. all installed and pre-configured..

Is your site functional otherwise, do the directives work ok under normal operation (ya know, minus pretty permalinks).

Yap everything works fine. Only when i use permalinks is not working! ??

Merry Christmas t31os_ !

Hey. I moved a WordPress blog from one Ubuntu server to another. Mine worked just fine as well for the main page, but the permalinks weren’t working for the post addresses for me either.

I just realized that I needed to enable mod rewrite.

# a2enmod rewrite
Enabling module rewrite.
Run '/etc/init.d/apache2 restart' to activate new configuration!
root@ubuntu:/etc/apache2/mods-enabled# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
 * Restarting web server apache2                                                                                              ... waiting                                                                                                          [ OK ]
root@ubuntu:/etc/apache2/mods-enabled#

@helyos

Any resolution to this? I have the same problem.

Cheers