Pretty permalinks – Apache configuration issue

Hi everyone,

I’m quite out of my depth with this topic (especially the apache server side), and have tried to fix this problem now for a while.
After reading and testing some things I think I have closed in on where the issue is.

If I change to pretty permalinks – any standard setting I get this 404 error message:

The requested URL /slug-name/ was not found on this server.
Apache/2.2.16 (Debian) Server at https://www.website-adress.at Port 80

So I checked the following things after some research:

• .htaccess file
• rewrite module in Apache is enabled
• FileInfo directives allowed (e.g. AllowOverride FileInfo or AllowOverride All) – here the problem lies I think

When setting to pretty permalinks the
.htaccess file looks like this:

# 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

Checking the apache configuration with phpinfo();
shows that rewrite is enabled I think (?).
Under apache2handler >> Loaded Modules I can see mod_rewrite
– this means its activated right? (sorry about such a question but servers are a bit alien to me)

Now I’ve found another configuration file on the apache server in this directory:
etc/apache2/sites-enabled/
Filename: 000-default

here I guess these settings interfere with the pretty permalinks:

DocumentRoot /chroot/blabla/www/
	<Directory />
		Options FollowSymLinks
		AllowOverride None
	</Directory>
	<Directory /chroot/blabla/www/>
		Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
		AllowOverride None
		Order allow,deny
		allow from all
	</Directory>

Now I’m not sure what these settings do and if should just set AllowOverride to something else?