Christian Mayne

mod_rewrite

Enabling mod_rewrite on Apache

This is one of those things I often forget to do when setting up Wordpress on a new server, which means pretty permalinks don't work: If you have a problem with permalinks not working on Wordpress, it may be because Apache does not have mod_rewrite enabled. An easy way to check is to make a simple php script, saved in the root directory of your webserver as info.php (or whatever takes your fancy): <?php phpinfo(); ?> This will give you an output of all the various modules and ...