Jghake

I have this problem as well. Where do I start looking?

Sorry didn’t mark it as closed.

I was able to resolve this myself. For anyone else who has their WordPress install located in /var/www/wordpress and their site URL set to https://mysite.com (preventing the url including ‘/wordpress’) here are all of my settings. I don’t know if these changes are all required, but it is working and I am going to stop touching it before it breaks.

/var/www/.htaccess

# For rewrite rules needed for making WordPress URL friendly
# See Options -> Permalinks for details and please use the defaults,
# especially in mind when hosting several blogs on one machine!

##
## Configuration for a single blog hosted on / (root of the website)
##
#<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
#RewriteEngine On
#RewriteBase /
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
#</IfModule>

##
## Configuration for a multi-site wordpress installation using subdomains
##
#<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
#RewriteEngine On
#RewriteBase /
#RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
## uploaded files
#RewriteRule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]
## real files dealt directly
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
#RewriteRule ^ - [L]
## other go through index.php
#RewriteRule . index.php [L]
#</IfModule>

# 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

/var/www/wordpress/.htaccess

# For rewrite rules needed for making WordPress URL friendly
# See Options -> Permalinks for details and please use the defaults,
# especially in mind when hosting several blogs on one machine!

##
## Configuration for a single blog hosted on / (root of the website)
##
#<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
#RewriteEngine On
#RewriteBase /
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
#</IfModule>

##
## Configuration for a multi-site wordpress installation using subdomains
##
#<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
#RewriteEngine On
#RewriteBase /
#RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
## uploaded files
#RewriteRule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]
## real files dealt directly
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
#RewriteRule ^ - [L]
## other go through index.php
#RewriteRule . index.php [L]
#</IfModule>

/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

        DocumentRoot /var/www
        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride All
        </Directory>
        <Directory /var/www/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>
        <Directory /var/www/wordpress/>
                Options FollowSymlinks
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

        ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
        <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
                AllowOverride None
                Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
        </Directory>

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
        # alert, emerg.
        LogLevel warn

        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

    Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
    <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Sorry /var/www/ and /var/www/wordpress is what I meant

There are two of those as well. Both in /var/www/.htaccess and /var/www/wordpress/.htaccess

I followed this guide here so I have two .htaccess. If this isn’t correct let me know.

/var/www/wordpress/.htaccess

# For rewrite rules needed for making WordPress URL friendly
# See Options -> Permalinks for details and please use the defaults,
# especially in mind when hosting several blogs on one machine!

##
## Configuration for a single blog hosted on / (root of the website)
##
#<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
#RewriteEngine On
#RewriteBase /
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
#</IfModule>

##
## Configuration for a multi-site wordpress installation using subdomains
##
#<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
#RewriteEngine On
#RewriteBase /
#RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
## uploaded files
#RewriteRule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]
## real files dealt directly
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
#RewriteRule ^ - [L]
## other go through index.php
#RewriteRule . index.php [L]
#</IfModule>

/var/www/.htaccess

# For rewrite rules needed for making WordPress URL friendly
# See Options -> Permalinks for details and please use the defaults,
# especially in mind when hosting several blogs on one machine!

##
## Configuration for a single blog hosted on / (root of the website)
##
#<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
#RewriteEngine On
#RewriteBase /
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
#</IfModule>

##
## Configuration for a multi-site wordpress installation using subdomains
##
#<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
#RewriteEngine On
#RewriteBase /
#RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
## uploaded files
#RewriteRule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]
## real files dealt directly
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
#RewriteRule ^ - [L]
## other go through index.php
#RewriteRule . index.php [L]
#</IfModule>

# 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