Comments on: WordPress Permalinks not working on Ubuntu 10.04 – mod_rewrite issue requires a symlink

By: John

John — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:21:06 +0000

Thanks for this… Ive been trying every trick in the book to get this working and this is the first post that I found that actually worked…

Thanks for your help.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 12:55:56 +0000

Just want to say THANK YOU. I quite searched for a couple of hours and could not find any solution to my problem.. it was already driving me nuts.. until I found your posting.
Again, thank you very much for sharing this important notice.

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Permalinks on Ubuntu with Wordpress « Core Research — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:40:06 +0000

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By: Diana Eftaiha

Diana Eftaiha — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:56:32 +0000

hi. thanks for the article. i have a problem cause i dont want to put wordpress permalink rules in .htaccess file. i want them to go directly in apace2.conf config file. everything goes well and pages display as supposed to. only problem is with files that have a .css or .php extension (which are basically the style sheets, images, and the comment post php file). what can i do to correct the problem

heres what i have inside the block :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

any suggestions?

By: james

james — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:31:31 +0000

yes i am also using /etc/init.d/apache2 restart to restart the apache.

By: Sahus Pilwal

Sahus Pilwal — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 22:47:05 +0000

Thanks “AllowOverride All” worked a treat however I did this on the sites-available > default file instead of sites-enabled > 000-default.

Does anyone know if there are any implications in doing this? What’s the difference between “sites available” & “sites-enabled”?? Thanks

By: Marvin

Marvin — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 17:08:24 +0000

Thanks, this trick saved me some time searching the internet…!

By: Stephan Miller

Stephan Miller — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 04:27:57 +0000

Thanks man! Just went through backing up an exploded WP multisite database and repairing what I could from a raw file backup, rebuilding the sitemeta table from scratch because it was gone and moving everything to a new server and ran into this weird issue, but you saved my site.

By: Suleiman Leadbitter

Suleiman Leadbitter — Fri, 13 May 2011 09:05:31 +0000

I was having so much trouble with this and tried so many different methods. Thank you it works superb now.

By: Pat Hann

Pat Hann — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 03:50:39 +0000

This worked like a charm. I have been trying to figure it out to no avail. I think I will post a link to this page on mine. Just Great!!

By: MKO

MKO — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:00:37 +0000

Thank you very much.

Damn you “AllowOverride None”

By: Manish

Manish — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 07:16:05 +0000

Thanks! It did help me a LOT!

To make it more difficult for me, I am new to PHP+Apache as well.

Though I had enabled rewrite module by this – a2enmod rewrite
I had to modify “000-default” from /etc/apache2/sites-enabled to get this working as per your instructions here.

AllowOverride All –> That was all needed and finally find here. Thanks a lot for your post.

By: Eric P

Eric P — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:02:58 +0000

Ditto: AllowOverride All – solved everything. Thanks man, for taking the time to share !!

By: greywalk

greywalk — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:44:30 +0000

AllowOverride All – this solved everything =) thanks a lot for this post.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:33:27 +0000

Brilliant, a perfect solution. Thanks

By: Winterbraid

Winterbraid — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:04:27 +0000

Thanks a lot, this was a lifesaver – the procedure works on Maverick as well. Pretty sure I didn’t have that many problems with permalinks on my old Jaunty server, or perhaps I was using a better tutorial back then…

By: Philip Oakley

Philip Oakley — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 21:56:42 +0000

Glad it could help someone else and thanks to all the comments that have added to it as well.

By: picajoso

picajoso — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:09:07 +0000

Saved my life this afternoon! Thank you so much

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 18:39:08 +0000

Thank you SO much for this post!

I’d been ripping my hair out trying to figure out why one of my servers was fine while the one I’m currently working with would not use .htaccess files! Turns out that the Rewrite module was available but not installed for some dumb reason and had it not been for you, I’m not sure I would have ever thought to look at it.

Thanks again!

By: Philip Oakley

Philip Oakley — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:06:37 +0000

Thanks Keith, much appreciated. I will update the post.

By: Keith Graber

Keith Graber — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:57:38 +0000

Thanks for the pointers!

Just wanted to mention that your command to restart the Apache server is incorrect (looks like you pasted the symlink command by accident).

You can use either: apache2ctl restart or /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

edit: mistyped the apache2clt command

By: Keith Graber

Keith Graber — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:55:09 +0000

Thanks for the pointers!

Just wanted to mention that your command to restart the Apache server is incorrect (looks like you pasted the symlink command by accident).

You can use either: apachectl2 restart or /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:25:19 +0000

Dude,

Thanks for the post! I could not get the permalinks options work on localhost using Ubuntu 10.04 for love or money. My mod_rewrite was installed, so I was stuck. However, if you go to the permalink page, you’ll see an ominous message stating ” update .htaccess file.” Further down, you’ll find the text required. Cut and paste the file into your root directory. In my case, it was /var/www/blog. Caution! You may have an .htaccess file, but it may not contain the correct info, so copy the new info provides by WordPress.

Good luck!

Mike

By: Philip Oakley

Philip Oakley — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:39:49 +0000

Many thanks Seth. Thats very useful to know, I will try that next time.

By: Seth Gottlieb

Seth Gottlieb — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:13:41 +0000

Just as an FYI, Debian and Ubuntu provide helper scripts for managing modules and sites under apache. The “a2enmod” and “a2dismod” commands will enable and disable modules.

So you could have done: a2enmod rewrite

If there had been a separate heades.conf file, this would have symlinked that as well.