can't make permalink work after migration

  • Unknown's avatar

    I’m hosting a wordpress 3.9.3 on a server and decided to created sandbox on my localhost. I did the following:
    1. Installed apache 2.4.7, mysql and php.
    2. Got a database dump and wp-content files.
    3. Restored the database locally and put the wp-content files in place.
    4. Got my local site up and running locally – it works fine with settings-permalink set to default
    5. However, the permalinks with “post name” don’t work the way they did on the original host.
    6. I granted everyone write acces to the virtual host directory, and wordpress created an .htaccess file with the code below.
    7. I restarted the apache2 service.
    8. The problem persists.

    Any suggestions?

    .htaccess file content:

    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>
    # END WordPress

  • I’m afraid you’re in the wrong forum. This support forum is only for free WordPress.com blogs. You appear to have a self-hosted WordPress.ORG install. WordPress.com and WordPress.org are completely separate and different: http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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  • Unknown's avatar

    Figured out that mod_rewrite was not enabled and did this:
    a2enmod rewrite
    /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

    Still doesn’t work .. :(

  • Unknown's avatar

    Oh sorry, thanks kokkieh

  • You’re welcome. Hope the .org forum can help you fix this.

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