For a WordPress website installed on the local computer I was seeing a 404 Not Found error when navigating to a page.
I had selected the option Common Settings by Post Name on the Settings page Permalink Settings.
As an example I was unable to navigate to the page http://localhost/wordpress/about-us/
The error shown on the page was:
Not Found The requested URL /wordpress/about-us/ was not found on this server. Apache/2.4.12 (Debian) Server at localhost Port 80
Reviewing the .htaccess file there was nothing untoward.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
I then checked the Apache config file
/etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
I had added a section relevant to the local WordPress site, this section is shown below:
DocumentRoot /usr/share/wordpress <Directory /usr/share/wordpress> Options +MultiViews Options FollowSymLinks Options -Indexes AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>
Again this looked to be correct when compared with another server. In this file AllowOverride is set to All.
Considering possible options I tried enabling mod rewrite:
I enabled mod-rewrite using
root@local:/etc/apache2/sites-available# a2enmod rewrite
Executing this command returns:
Enabling module rewrite. To activate the new configuration, you need to run: service apache2 restart
Therefore as requested, and expected, I restarted Apache:
root@local:/etc/apache2/sites-available# service apache2 restart
Returning to the website once more the pages were rendering correctly.problem resolved! mod-rewrite had not been enabled.
