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Okay… so it turns out I have two wordpress installs and one of them is misleadingly named after the actual site that the other contains. Hence, I was editing the wrong files.

Problem solved

Yeah, problem sorted now.
The apache virtual host for the site had
AllowOveride none
which prevented the htaccess file from being used.
I’ve changed the overide to ‘all’ and made sure I changed the file permissions on the htaccess file so it’s not world writable

Ah, forgot to mention, the problem is getting a 404 following the permalinks.

Well to add to the mystery, I’m encountering what looks like the same thing, except mine’s not working. commented out or not.

I’m positive that mod_rewrite is enabled,
the askapache rewriterules viewer is just confirming what I thought:
> Permalink: /%postname%/
> Writable .htaccess file found
> mod_rewrite found
> Not using pathinfo style index permalinks
> Using mod_rewrite permalinks

I’ve tried various combinations of the default htaccess file and the following:

# BEGIN WordPress
#<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /var/public_html/makeithappen/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /var/public_html/makeithappen/index.php [L]
#</IfModule>

# END WordPress

where /var/public_html/makeithappen/ is the wp install.
any ideas?