Permalinks not working with Vagrant

Question

I am using Vagrant to build up a little Wordpress development VM. When I select permalinks (postname) then the page from an article doesn't load. However, when I select the standard link (i.e page id) all is working good. I've used the service PuPHPet to build the VM.

My settings can be found here

I am using Wordpress 3.9.1 and Apache2 I've enabled mod_rewrite be executing:

a2enmod rewrite

And my .htaccess file from Wordpress is as follows:

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

# END WordPress

it has the following permissions and ownership:

-rw-rw-rw- 1 vagrant www-data   248 May 30 14:52 .htaccess

My virtualhost file for the site (/var/www/svisa/) can be found here.

from my host computer, I browse to the site via adress: http://wpdev-vm/svisa/ where wpdev-vm is the name of the vm.

Does anybody know what I am missing to make the permalinks work?

Answer 1

I solved the problem myself.

In the default apache configuration, under /etc/apache2/sites-enabled, where mine is called 15-default.conf

This was declared under the document root:

   <Directory "/var/www">
     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
     AllowOverride None
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all
   </Directory>

I had to change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All. Thus you'll get the following:

   <Directory "/var/www">
     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
     AllowOverride All
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all
   </Directory>

After that, the permalinks started working.

Answer 2

There's sufficient info on the web about how to get .htaccess files working with Apache2. But specifically with Vagrant, you need to ensure the required settings are implemented in Apache on your guest machine. That might be obvious to everyone else, but I wasted an changing settings on my host and couldn't figure out why it wasn't working.