WordPress Permalinks using Apache2 on Debain

We wasted a good hour or two trying to work out this issue the other day. Quite franky I can’t stand Debian for hosting websites - sure its okay to use for large network applications, and I am certain then many an old bearded linux geek wearing “I’m the 16 year old girl your were talking to online last night” t-shirts might beg to differ but for your run of the mill website go Centos or Fedora all the way!!!

WordPress Permalinks using Apache2 on Debain

If you’re running Apache2 on Debian stable, in order to install the rewrite module you simply need to:

# a2enmod rewrite

then restart the webserver:

# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart