Configuring Apache and Wordpress
It has been quite some time since I've posted to my own community. I have two, in fact, that I have neglected, and for that I feel bad. This isn't what I learned today, however; I already knew I needed to come back here.
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Some time ago I left my web hosting provider due to "excessive usage." I posted about it and how it seemed strange that my few weekly visitors constituted "excessive." In hindsight I think the issue was with robots crawling the pages, but either way, I was happy to save some money and reduce that expense.
At the time I was using RapidWeaver to build my webpage. RapidWeaver is a really nice Mac app that lets a dolt like pretend to be a web page designer and produce nice looking pages. And it worked really well until I started to use a Windows PC as my primary PC; my Mac laptop is now my portable device only. I didn't think much of this until I wanted to do some web editing.
I decided to begin the transition from RapidWeaver designed pages to WordPress. I've used WordPress before and like it a lot; again, it gives people like me the ability to build professional looking web pages without needing or wanting to learn the nuts and bolts of css, bootstrap, php and javascript (two of those I do actually know and use). I'm hosting this at home and already have dynamic dns, port forwarding, apache multi site, etc etc, configured and running, so the task at hand was only to migrate to WordPress.
Installation went fine. Began adding some of my favourite plugins without much problem. But then modified the "permalink" setting so posts and pages used human reading links instead of "/page?=blahblah" gobbledegook. That failed miserably.
On every site. This was a headscratcher. I scoured all settings and could find nothing abnormal. I even began to reverse engineer the database to see if the links were in there to be updated. They were not. And nothing out of the ordinary in any of the backend files.
So off to Google I went. I'm a firm believer that whatever I personally do not know, Google does. True to form, Google did not disappoint. I am not the only one who ran across this problem, and the solution was surprisingly simple:
Modify the apache2.conf configuration to remove AllowOverride None and replace with AllowOverride All. How simple is that? Editing config, restarted apache, and permalinks work.
See for yourself here: Blind Skeleton
What I Learned Today: Simple modifications to apache2.conf to support WordPress.
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