permalink – Digitalia

It could happen that wordpress in localhost doesn’t see textual permalink, such as the article name, or the like, and see only ”simple” permalink with a final suffix such as ?p=123.

The problem is an apache problem. To fix it, you have to:

modifying the apache config file, with a name such as apache2.conf or another name, depending of your S.O., by adding something like

<Directory /var/www/your-wordpress-path/>
	Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
	AllowOverride all
	Require all granted
</Directory>

then you have to do these bash commands (in a terminal):

sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo systemctl restart apache2

then you have to put in your (root wordpress) folder an .htaccess file with a content like:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteBase /your-wordpress-path/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /your-wordpress-path/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

your-wordpress-path is the path following http://localhost, so don't have to write http://localhost

At this point you should be able to set a textual permalink, after setting it, save it, and try.

<Directory /var/www/html> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Require all granted </Directory> <Directory /var/www/html/your-path/to-local-wp> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Require all granted </Directory>

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