URL /about/ was not found on this server.

note, that while i am a sufficient geek to take emacs and create the file $BASE/about/index.html, it does not follow the theme, …

None of your custom permalinks work, for example:

https://blog.flybynighttravel.com/category/food/

Is mod_rewrite supported on your server?

> Is mod_rewrite supported on your server?

# grep -i rewrite /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf
LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache/mod_rewrite.so
AddModule mod_rewrite.c

# cat /usr/local/www/data-dist/wordpress/.htaccess
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

and error log whines

File does not exist: /usr/local/www/data-dist/wordpress/category/food/

Then I’m at a loss, since at the very least (with that single RewriteRule above), WordPress should be the one reporting errors, not the server.

note that this system is freebsd current with apache+mod_ssl-1.3.34+2.8.25_1 from the ports tree

https://blog.flybynighttravel.com/foo.php

will give you the output of

<?php

// Show all information, defaults to INFO_ALL
phpinfo();

// Show just the module information.
// phpinfo(8) yields identical results.
// phpinfo(INFO_MODULES);

?>

i tried adding
RewriteLog /var/log/httpd-rewrite.log
restarting apache, and boinking some of the permalinks.

nothing shows in log file! so is it that rewrite is not really there or is not being invoked?

but https://blog.flybynighttravel.com/foo.php
sure makes it look as if mod_rewrite is there.

Like I said I’m at a loss as to the problem, but you can try this as your .htaccess to test mod_write:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^foo/$ /foo.php [L]

Then see if

https://blog.flybynighttravel.com/foo/

Directs you to foo.php.

The requested URL /foo/ was not found on this server. (changed it back after test)

so mod_rewrite seems not have been invoked. how to debug why?

phpinfo() at https://blog.flybynighttravel.com/foo.php reports mod_rewrite as a loaded module. are other modules needed as precursors? what else should be in httpd.conf

# grep -i rewrite /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf
LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache/mod_rewrite.so
AddModule mod_rewrite.c
RewriteLog /var/log/httpd-rewrite.log
RewriteLogLevel 9