Wordpress “Post name” permalinks not working

Question

I have a Wordpress website running on Lamp Server on Ubuntu Server 14.04. I just tried to use the option for Post Name permalinks, and now my pages no longer load up.

I turned on the mod_rewrite function of the Apache server, restarted it, but it still doesn't work.

Also, here's my .htaccess file:

# 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

Note that the content of /wordpress folder has been put directly inside /html Let's say the name of my website is mywebsite.com.

How can I make it work?

EDIT: Here is my /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf file

    <VirtualHost *:80>
    # The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
    # the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
    # redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
    # specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
    # match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
    # value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
    # However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
    #ServerName www.example.com

    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html


    # Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
    # error, crit, alert, emerg.
    # It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
    # modules, e.g.
    #LogLevel info ssl:warn

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

    # For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
    # enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
    # include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
    # following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
    # after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
    #Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
</VirtualHost>

# vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet

Solution 1

have you enabled the use of .htaccess like described here ? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnablingUseOfApacheHtaccessFiles

Solution 2

I found a fix. So happy!

In short, the fix for me was to go into the WordPress admin dashboard, go to:

“Settings” > “Permalinks” > “Common settings”, and set the radio button to “Custom Structure”

, and paste into the text box:

/index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

, and click the Save button

Solution 3

For those running apache 2.4 and not finding "default" look in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf and edit

Directory

AllowOverride All

Directory

---

Directory /var/www/>

AllowOverride All

Directory

Comments

[Sartheris Stormhammer]

seems like I don't have a "default" file in /apache2/sites-available directory, only 000-default.conf and default-ssl.conf, which one should it be?

[Sartheris Stormhammer]

please see my edited question, I can't see where to put all of that

[mmm]

maybe the 2. default-ssl certainly configure the https access

[Lucas Fernandes]

Weird solution, yet it works like a charm.

[Min Somai]

works for the pages too. /index.php/page-name