unable to set permalink post-site migration

One quick follow-up:

I upped the log level in my Apache error log and found the following being generated when I try to open a page:

AH00128: File does not exist: /var/www/myDomain/blog/PostName/, referer: https://blog.myDomain/

This suggest to me that the Rewrite commands being added to .htaccess aren’t working as expected…?

Hi,

This sounded like a problem I had last week. Have you enabled the rewrite module of Apache2? On an Debian/Ubuntu system, you can look in the /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/ directory to see if rewrite.load is there.

If not, this shold enable it:

sudo a2enmod rewrite

This will just add a symbolic link from mods-enabled to mods-available.

Ray

Hey, @rwanwork – appreciate the reply and a good suggestion. Unfortunately, it looks like my Module rewrite already enabled

I’m wondering if my directives might be messed up…

My /etc/apache2/sites-available/myDomain.conf contains:

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
ServerName blog.myDomain
DocumentRoot /var/www/myDomain/blog
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]

While /etc/apache2/sites-available/myDomain-le-ssl.conf contains:

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
ServerName blog.myDomain
DocumentRoot /var/www/myDomain/blog
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log "combined"

Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/myDomain/fullchain.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/myDomain/privkey.pem
LogLevel crit

I tried adding RewriteEngine on to the latter config file; made no difference…

• This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by chrisjscott.

Hi @chrisjscott,

Is that your entire conf file? I think you need to add something in order for Apache to make use of the .htaccess files.

I’m not sure if you’re using Ubuntu, but I have it bookmarked so it is handy for me. i.e., https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-on-ubuntu-22-04-with-a-lamp-stack

I think you need:

<Directory /var/www/wordpress/>
  AllowOverride All
</Directory>

I think I have followed these instructions before to set up my system. If you are using Ubuntu, perhaps you can go through it as sort of a checklist.

I can’t see anything obviously wrong with your conf files. However, personally, I don’t have any RewriteEngine or RewriteRule in my conf file. It’s all in my .htaccess file (that’s written by WordPress when I choose permalinks; I didn’t edit it).

Hope this helps!

Ray

@rwanwork

I’ll be darned that was it! Specifically, this needed to be placed within the virtualhost config for blog.myDomain contained within the myDomain-le-ssl.conf file (I’m using Let’s Encrypt for SSL).

THANK YOU!!!