only default permalinks working wordpress others become 404 error

Question

My problem is in my wordpress site only default permalinks is working.. When I change permalinks all pages become not found.. only home page is showing.

When I change permalinks to postname .htaccess content change to

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

And for default it is

# BEGIN WordPress

# END WordPress

Also tried to get the status of mod_rewrite using this

in_array( 'mod_rewrite', apache_get_modules())

It returns 1 and mod_rewrite is enabled on my server and also checked using phpinfo(). mod_rewrite module is loaded.. I have gone through all the documents available in internet.. Please help me to solve this problem.. My hosting server is godaddy..

Solution 1

In case you are on Ubuntu, edit the file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf (here we have an example of /var/www):

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

and change it to:

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
</Directory>

also check Apache configuration file for your website /etc/apache2/sites-available/your_site.conf:

<Directory /var/www/your_site_path/>
    AllowOverride None
</Directory>

and change it to:

<Directory /var/www/your_site_path/>
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>

You need to do sudo a2enmod rewrite to enable module rewrite

then,

sudo service apache2 restart

I hope this helps you!

Solution 2

It could be a broken rewrite_rules field in your database.

I installed "Yoast SEO" into a live site and that broke it completely. I disabled the plugin but it didn't go back to working. Only default permalinks would work.

Like everyone else I tried the usual things - checking .htaccess, making sure that mod_rewrite was working on the server, saving the permalinks settings again, but nothing was working. The homepage would load, and wp-admin pages would load, but everything else was just loading the "Latest Posts" default page.

In the end it turned out to be something wrong with the rewrite_rules field of wp_options in the database.

I had three versions of the site (local, staging and production), and all were from one SVN base, so I knew it was not a file issue. But only the local development version was working.

I replaced the contents of the rewrite_rules field of the broken live site with the working one from my local development site, and it worked.

What's really weird is that deleting the rewrite_rules field and having WordPress rebuild it did not fix the problem. Only replacing with the contents of a previously working version of the site did the trick.

I'm still puzzled by this, and will edit this reply if I find out anything further about the problem.

Solution 3

I had the exact same issue and fixed it by running

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Then restarted apache. Apparently the issue is caused by mod_rewrite potentially not working properly on ubuntu.

I found the solution here

Solution 4

suffered from the same issue. Having site on SSL had to change NOT the 000-default.conf but the respective SSL conf file. Adding

after DocumentRoot /var/www/html

the following

<Directory "/var/www/html">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
</Directory>

and then restarting apache2 saved my site.... nothing else worked. The issue was Wordpress SSL and SEO plugins messing up config files.

Solution 5

Not sure this is too late. i faced the same issue and solved by changing

AllowOverride None

to

AllowOverride All

in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-deafult.conf file. hope this would help.

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Comments

[Ketav]

In 000-deafult.conf file i didn't found neither AllowOverride None nor AllowOverride All

[Daniele Rugginenti]

I installed WP with "AllowOverride None" and "modRewrite disabled", that was default conf in fresh ubuntu install on aws Solved putting AllowOverride All in the website directory config, and sudo a2enmod rewrite as you say Thanks