Comments on: Enable mod_rewrite in a Ubuntu server

By: DVR

DVR — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:58:29 +0000

Many thanks.. I’m learning and learning more about Linux all the time.
This was a simple and well explained..

By: Betere URL’s voor mijn blog « Jac's weblog

Betere URL’s voor mijn blog « Jac's weblog — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:20:54 +0000

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By: Priyank

Priyank — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:26:02 +0000

Thanks a lot..!
FInally i could successfully setup the rewrite engine correctly..

By: ero

ero — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 12:17:21 +0000

Thanks very much. After installing Ubuntu 11.04 I was really in a glitch to make the pretty permalink work in my wordpress blog. It helped a lot after I came here through google :)

By: How to Run Your WordPress.org Blog Locally for Experimentation and Fun

How to Run Your WordPress.org Blog Locally for Experimentation and Fun — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:03:51 +0000

[...] Depending on your permalink structure, you need to have the “mod_rewrite” Apache module enabled. I’m not sure why, but this isn’t always on by default. There are numerous articles about it if you Google. For instance here’s a howto for Ubuntu. [...]

By: Fokosa

Fokosa — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:27:58 +0000

Ty this is purfect! thx for this post :) REP!

By: cYrixmorten

cYrixmorten — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:29:40 +0000

Thanks a lot !!

I too had trouble enabling .htaccess on linux mint :D

By: Setting up Wordpress on my Linode server | Marcelvdg's Blog

Setting up Wordpress on my Linode server | Marcelvdg's Blog — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:36:08 +0000

[...] after that were learning ‘chmod’ to allow WordPress write-access to its own files, and making sure that the rewrite engine was enabled so that my WordPress URLs would look [...]

By: Web Developer - Adam Temple

Web Developer - Adam Temple — Sun, 16 May 2010 18:54:01 +0000

[...] need to setup mod-rewrite at some point, as many popular frameworks and CMS packages require it. Here is an excellent guide on enabling mod-rewrite in [...]

By: Setting up Wordpress on my Linode server « Link to me!

Setting up Wordpress on my Linode server « Link to me! — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:59:26 +0000

[...] after that was learning ‘chmod’ to allow WordPress write-access to its own files, and making sure that the rewrite engine was enabled so that my WordPress URLs would look [...]

By: Newbie

Newbie — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:33:45 +0000

Thanks for the great tip. I recently had an issue with enabling the rewrite module on linux mint, and it turns out that the only directive I had missed was changing the ‘AllowOverride None’ to ‘AllowOverride All’.

By: iceflatline

iceflatline — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:59:03 +0000

Great article Jack. And perfect timing too. I was in the processing carefully cutting and pasting “LoadModule rewrite_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_rewrite.so” into a rewrite.load file I had created when I thought to myself “there’s got to be a better way…” Sure enough there was!

By: Enable mod_rewrite in a Ubuntu server :Addz It Now

Enable mod_rewrite in a Ubuntu server :Addz It Now — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:56:43 +0000

[...] a means for your web server to literally rewrite urls so they are easier for users to remember More here Of course the rewrite engine serves as much more than just a means for your users to more easily [...]

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By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:32:34 +0000

What you imply – which is not true – is that rewrite rules must go in .htaccess files. If you have access to the main server configuration file, rewrite directives can and should go there. .htaccess files are for people who don’t have access to the main config files.