psym

Setting AllowOverride to All in user conf solves this issue.

Couldn’t find anything wrong with the Apache config.
Rewrite is on, AllowOverride set to all in httpd.conf root directory, and user conf
to Allow from all.

The .htaccess file is populated correctly when changing the permalink settings.

What else can be the reason Apache is looking for the wp-json file in the root directory?

Any help would be appreciated.

It seems apache complains the wp-json file cannot be found in the root folder:
File does not exist: /Users/psym/wordpress/wp-json

I suspect it has to do with mod_rewrite not being turned on.

The plugin was installed via the wordpress admin interface btw