Permalinks to Working for all Links

Hello All,

I have been trying to get Permalinks working on our WordPress for a week or so now and I have not been able to get it fully implemented since…

I have read through a dozen or so posts on this WordPress forum as well as the “Using Permalinks: WordPress Codex” and “htaccess: WordPress Codex” pages, but none of them have been able to solve this issue. Maybe I am not understanding the Permalinks settings page and what has to go in the textboxes, can you ONLY include the structure tags, like %year%, %month%, %post_id%, etc…?

This WordPress installation is installed on a Linux VM which is hosted and fully controlled by me. Using the following:

Apache2 v2.2.2-59.1 *The mod_rewrite module is enabled for Apache2
MySQL 5.6.28
PHP v5.6.9
OS = SLES 11 SP3

Also, I have configured the WordPress Directory in /etc/apache2/default-server.conf Configured like so:

DocumentRoot "/srv/www/wordpress"

<Directory />
	Options FollowSymLinks
	AllowOverride All
</Directory>

<Directory "/srv/www/wordpress">
	Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
	AllowOverride All
	Order allow,deny
	Allow from all
</Directory>

Originally I did not have the <Directory /> section, but after looking at .htaccess it seemed like I needed it since it used just “/” (*i.e. root) as the base, and “/index.php”. And ever since I added that section to default-server.conf, SOME of the permalinks seem to be working, but definitely not all of them…

In WordPress >> Dashboard >> Settings >> Permalinks, I tried the following:
1st Try:

Custom Structure = /%postname%/
Category Base = courses

2nd try and Current Settings:

*Enabled the “Post name” Option
*The next 2 options stayed the same:
Custom Structure = /%postname%/
Category Base = courses

My .htaccess File currently contains the following:

# 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

Can anyone tell if there is something I am doing wrong?

I have the LearnPress Plugin installed and when I try to navigate to one of the courses by going to: Dashboard >> LearnPress >> Courses >> My Test Course >> View… This takes me to –> “https://myWordpress/courses/my-test-course&#8221;, but I get the “Oops! That page can’t be found” error.

However, if I go to “https://myWordpress/courses/&#8221;, it takes me to a page that lists all the current courses, seemingly as it’s supposed to.

Can anyone tell me if I am missing something here?
Any thoughts or suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated!

Thanks in Advance,
Matt