Getting Permalinks to work on low end VPS

Hi, just wanted to give a quick solution to anyone who is having trouble getting mod_rewrite and permalinks to work on a bare VPS (using digitalocean, applies to any server that just gives you a blank linux install without anything else installed at all).

Even if your .htaccess is properly configured (or your sites-available for better security), it still won’t work unless you enable mod_rewrite!

Doing so, however, is pretty easy. On my ubuntu 12.04:

sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo service apache2 restart

Done! It works beautifully. Hope this helps someone else out