Permalinks errar – page not found. Modifying the httpd.conf file directly

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I’m trying to change the permalinks in WordPress, so the URL uses the post-names instead.

I’ve tried to modify the httpd.conf directly as below but Apache doesn’t seem to be parsing the URL. I keep getting page not found.

I can’t see any attempts to redirect whatsoever as the rewrite logs are empty. I have tried several over rewrite conditions that is known to work outside of the tag but the logs are still empty.

<Directory "/var/www/user1/example.com/public_html">

    Options +Indexes FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from All

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

</Directory>

It seems the RewriteRule and RewriteCond isn’t working when placed in the tag as when I move these directives outside the tag, apache does parse the URL correctly and page’s does have some contents. Hoever, the displayed pages no longer has any structure; it appears certain css files did not get loaded or possible the rewrite performed was done incorrectly.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.