I have a wordpress blog in a local server: /var/www/html/blog
(In the root dir '/var/www/html' there are other pages i shouldn't move, so I cant't put the wordpress blog in the root)
I bought a domain name and I've assigned it to this blog with a virtualhost. Then I activated the permalinks in the wordpress blog.
The problem is that when I go to mydomain/index.php or mydomain/, it shows a "Apache 2 Test Page" and in the apache error log it writes this message:
Options FollowSymLinks or SymLinksIfOwnerMatch is off which implies that RewriteRule directive is forbidden: /var/www/html/blog/
If I go to mydomain/wp-login.php, it's right. If I go to mydomain/section/blabla/, it's right. But the index page fails.
If I comment the .htaccess file I have put in the wordpress blog, the index page works, but pages like mydomain/section/blabla/ doesn't.
This is my virtualhost config code:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin ...Mymail...
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/blog
ServerName ...mydomain...
</Virtualhost>
And this is my .htaccess in the wordpress directory:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
Solved.
Finally I moved the blog files to the root apache directory. Then I removed the virtualhost and I created a redirection rule: mydomain/ -> mydomain/index.php
And it works.
Try putting
Options +FollowSymLinks
at the top of your .htaccess file
I have a wordpress site located on
/var/www/html/site
so I wanted to setup a Virtual host for Apache 2.4
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/site"
ServerName www.site.com
<Directory "/var/www/html/site">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
But while most of the resources do load, a lot of fonts and scripts are giving a Error 404 Not Found. Why is this?
Also what can I do? Are they restricting some but not others?
EDIT: Here's Some errors we're getting.
GET http://52.16.22.15/site/wp-content/plugins/djd-site-post/css/display.css?ver=4.0.1
52.16.22.15/:41
GET http://52.16.22.15/site/wp-content/plugins/codecanyon-5299073-bugmebar-a-simple-little-notification-plugin/bugme.css?ver=1.0.4
52.16.22.15/:46
As most of the site works, only some get requests are failing to get resources. I noticed it's mostly scripts and stylesheets.
This is what I have in my directory .htaccess
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /site/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /site/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
# BEGIN wtwp_cache
# END wtwp_cache
# BEGIN wtwp_security
# END wtwp_security
There's more but it's on the level one above. But I am also reading that VirtualHost directories do not inherit .htaccess from parent directories. IS this true?
Try adding AllowOverride All
Like this,
<Directory "/var/www/html/site">
Order allow,deny
AllowOverride All
Allow from all
Require all granted
</Directory>
Okay so I've just create the first page on this site. It works when I use the default permalink settings.
If I change the permalink settings to use Post name, then I get an HTTP 404.
I'm not sure what's gone wrong or if I've broken anything. Can anyone help me fix?
The site is hosted on apache.
Are you using XAMPP or MAMP? There are a couple of common hiccups with those environments, taken from the WordPress Codex: Fixing Permalink Problems
Users of XAMPP (Windows): Some versions of XAMPP do not enable
mod_rewrite by default (though it is compiled in Apache). To enable it
— and thus enable WordPress to write the .htaccess file needed to
create pretty permalinks — you must open apache/conf/httpd.conf and
uncomment the line LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
(i.e., delete the hash/pound sign at the front of the line).
Users of WAMP (Windows): Some versions of WAMP (all versions?) do not
enable mod_rewrite or permit following SymLinks by default. To enable
the required functionality navigate to the apache/conf/httpd.conf
file, open with a text editor and uncomment the line LoadModule
rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so (i.e., delete the hash/pound
sign at the front of the line). Then further down in the same file
there is a section that starts with the line "Options FollowSymlinks".
Change the second line in that section from "AllowOverride none" to
AllowOverride all. Save edited httpd.conf and restart all WAMP
modules. Your permalinks should now work.
You might also see Permalinks without mod_rewrite if your sandbox doesn't have mod_rewrite available.
Apache
If you are using Apache there are usually two other culprits to broken permalinks: .htaccess isn't being generated (because of permissions settings) or Apache's AllowOverride directive isn't enabled.
First, if you SSH into your server, do you see a generated .htaccess file in the root? If not, WordPress might not have permissions to write that file. It's also possible the file does exist, but that WordPress cannot edit it. In either case, you can chmod that file (and create it if it doesn't exist) to 666.
Next, ensure your Apache config has the following settings:
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
Finally, read through the Fixing Permalink Problems section of the WordPress Codex. There are several other tips and suggestions on why permalinks might not work.
In my case, firstly I had to update the .htaccess file inside my website root folder:
# 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
WordPress does this automatically if it has write permission. Otherwise it'll complain it can't write to it, and give the above code sample so you can manually update the .htaccess.
After that, I edited the apache2.conf file. In Linux, it resides in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf, there will be a section like this:
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>
Change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride FileInfo.
Finally, execute the following commands:
sudo a2enmod rewrite
service apache2 restart
All these steps were necessary in order to work.
found this post on another site helped many people already
I finally managed to solve the problem! The solution: I was using a custom permalink structure http://kyl.fi/%category%/%postname%/. I removed the trailing slash (i.e. the last /) and voila. However, I'm quite sure I used a permalink structure with the trailing slash before without any problems, so I'm still confused and would be interested the hear more about this issue if somebody has an explanation.
All the standard permalinks have a trailing / in there.
in centos 8 and apache 2.4
look in /etc/httpd/conf.d
in your site .conf file add AllowOverride All, example like this
<Directory /path/to/site>
#add the following setting to allow .htaccess in your web dir to work
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
MY 80 LISTEN PORT
#Listen 80
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/mysite.com"
ServerName www.mysite.com
# Other directives here
<Directory "/var/www/mysite.com">
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =www.mysite.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =mysite.com
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]
</VirtualHost>
MY SSL VIRTUAL HOST:
<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost *:443>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/mysite.com"
ServerName www.mysite.com
# Other directives here
<Directory "/var/www/mysite.com">
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
ServerAlias mysite.com
Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
SSLCertificateFile /etc/mysite.com/fullchain.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /live/mysite.com/privkey.pem
</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>
Restart apache service.
Check your .htaccess (in my site the .htaccess is located in /var/www/mysite.com
My .htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^helloWorld/?$ /index.php [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
look helloWorld rewrite rule.
If you invoke url www.mysite.com/helloWorld and the browser show your homepage, the configuration is working and the permalink path to site works.
In my case, I am using the NGINX web browser with my WordPress installation. The fix is to add the following code snippet to the NGINX Directives:
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
# Add trailing slash to */wp-admin requests.
rewrite /wp-admin$ $scheme://$host$uri/ permanent;
location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|css|js|ico)$ {
expires max;
log_not_found off;
}
If you are using the excellent (open source) ISPconfig.org CPanel substitute, then go to your Sites page, under the Options tab, enter the above code snippet for NGINX Directives. ISPconfig has a feature to add common code snippets for quick access under the Options tab.
After making the above fix, I was able to use any of WordPress' Permalinks options.
Tested Working Solution:
in your apache2 config file for example:
/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf or mysite.conf etc ..
Make sure you have set param and not empty: ServerName www.example.com or 123.212.333.111
Also make sure You have set directory rules as below (Your rewrite rules may not have taken effect in the .htaccess hence you put it here and try finding out Why .htaccess does not work .htaccess not working apache):
<Directory /var/www/html>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</Directory>
Must be 2 point check:
1. Add code to .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
And Permission of .htaccess file, must be: 644
My solution was add this code in /etc/apache2/sites_available/000-default.conf
<Directory "/var/www/mysite.com">
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
I'm on Apache 2.4.46 (Ubuntu)
Thank you
I edited the permalink settings by changing the custom structure to:
/%postname%/
Now, when I click on a page link it'll take me to domain.com/postname, but I get a 404 error. Doing some digging this shows that I need to setup 301 redirects, but I'm confused as to how to do this. I've edited my .htaccess file - it now looks like:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /mgassoc/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /mgassoc/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Can anyone help me with what I'm doing wrong?
Try doing this and see if it helps.
Add the following into your httpd.conf and re-start apache.
<Directory "/path/to/your/app">
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
i am trying to set up a wordpress (3.4.2) multisite. The current site already has the following apache rules applied, which i do not have the permissions to edit
<VirtualHost xx.xx.xx.xxx:80>
ServerName foo.example.nl
ServerAlias www.foo.example.nl
DocumentRoot /web/sites/example.nl/foo/www
RewriteEngine On
<Location />
Allow from all
</Location>
</VirtualHost>
this works fine however i found that trying to set up permalinks with 'Post name' options always gives me a 404 redirect.
http://foo.example.nl/post1 = 404 Not Found
at the moment i have un-installed multisite just to try and get the pretty urls working with the sub-domain but after trying lots of different variations of my .htaccess but nothing seems to be working. here is the current .htaccess wordpress generates:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
Unfortunately you are probably limited from using .htaccess to configure the RewriteRules. If you referent to the Wordpress documentation on Using "Pretty" Permalinks you will see that you need to have Options FollowSymLinks enabled as well as AllowOverride Fileinfo or AllowOverride All to be able to use the pretty URL configuration in .htaccess. Since these don't seem to be set your <VirtualHost> it is likely your problem, since they are typically not set at a higher level in the Apache configuration.