How to fix permalinks not working with Vagrant and Wordpress? - php

Question

I am using Vagrant to build up a little Wordpress development VM. When I select permalinks (postname) then the page from an article doesn't load. However, when I select the standard link (i.e page id) all is working good.
I've used the service PuPHPet to build the VM.
My settings can be found here
I am using Wordpress 3.9.1 and Apache2
I've enabled mod_rewrite be executing:
a2enmod rewrite
And my .htaccess file from Wordpress is as follows:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /svisa/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /svisa/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
it has the following permissions and ownership:
-rw-rw-rw- 1 vagrant www-data 248 May 30 14:52 .htaccess
My virtualhost file for the site (/var/www/svisa/) can be found here.
from my host computer, I browse to the site via adress: http://wpdev-vm/svisa/
where wpdev-vm is the name of the vm.
Does anybody know what I am missing to make the permalinks work?

Answer 1

I solved the problem myself.
In the default apache configuration, under /etc/apache2/sites-enabled, where mine is called 15-default.conf
This was declared under the document root:
<Directory "/var/www">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
I had to change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All. Thus you'll get the following:
<Directory "/var/www">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
After that, the permalinks started working.

Answer 2

The (correct) answer above says that you need to change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All in your xxx-default.conf file found in the /etc/apache2/sites-enabled directory.
However, in my vagrant box (precise64) none of the allowOverride or <Directory /var/www/>... code was present to begin with in the default.conf file.
I ended up having to add all of it between the VirtualHost tags, like below:
<VirtualHost *:80>
# Other stuff
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
And then having to restart apache, like below, for it to work.
sudo service apache2 restart