Comments on: Enabling mod_rewrite for Apache2 in Debian

By: Kenny Gillen

Kenny Gillen — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 06:39:31 +0000

Thank you, Gary and WordStress, problem is solved. In fact, the URI was being re-written effectively however the my problem was with the configuration of the apache2 virtual host.

I should have enabled the AllowOverride directive; as shown in the Worpress Codex of Wisdom. I did not remeber that this was not done for the wordpress directory, since I recently installed gallery, and set the directive for the gallery install. Indeed, a silly mistake. :)

Kenny

By: Gary Fleming

Gary Fleming — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:04:27 +0000

Or manually add the rewrite rules that WP gives you. Whatever is easier.

By: WordStress

WordStress — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:28:01 +0000

Woah there G, let’s not get hasty with world-writable files. If the problem is that your apache process can’t write to your .htaccess file, then chown the file appropriately. (For example apache:apache, nobody:nogroup, as applicable from your User/Group main configuration directives).

For fun, you could try running the perchild MPM under Apache 2 and play with the AssignUserID directive. Process space explosion is the biggest risk with this MPM (and the fact that it’s marked as experimental), but in my opinion privilege splitting is a huge benefit on any site with multiple untrusted virtual hosts. (And even the majority of those with trusted virtual hosts.)

Stoobe

By: Gary Fleming

Gary Fleming — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:25:36 +0000

Have you added write access to your .htaccess file? Chmod 666 your root .htaccess file, or Wordpress can’t add the redirects necessary to change your permalinks. After submitting the changed permalink structure, if you scroll to the bottom of the page it should have a textbox full of instructions if it didn’t write successfully (regardless of access permissions).

By: Kenny Gillen

Kenny Gillen — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:35:51 +0000

And, indeed, mod_rewrite is now loaded into Apache2, but the wordpress custom permalink structure does NOT work! (note the /index.php/ part of the URI, it allow’s nicer a URI without mod_rewrite)

-Kenny