How to remove 'index.php' from permalinks [WordPress on Composer]

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I have local server, on which I'm running WordPress with Composer.

After database migration from my local to AWS RDS, the permalinks changed it's behaviour: now there's 'index.php' in the beginning of tags, like:

http://example.com/index.php/name-of-page

Also, in the wp-admin->Settings->Permalinks the structure is custom now:

/index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

Details about my local server:

  • Xubuntu 18
  • Apache2
  • AllowOverride All for both / and var/www/
  • it's on Composer, with custom dir (wp-content is seperated from wp core)

  • .htaccess:

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

# END WordPress

What I have tried:

http://dejanjanosevic.info/remove-index-php-permalink-in-wordpress/

http://derekmolloy.ie/remove-index-php-from-your-wordpress-url/

  • updating permalinks
  • updating composer
  • selling my soul to Satan

What are the results?

Modyfying .htaccess has no effect - just ends in 404, the only links that work are still the ones that include /index.php/. Updating permalinks from WordPress has same result.

I'm running out of ideas here.

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1 Answers

1
votes

I've got it.

For anyone looking for a solution to the same problem, here's guide:

  1. Change permalink settings in wp-admin to pretty permalinks
  2. Install mod_rewrite module in apache

  3. The most important part, in etc/apache/apache2.conf (NOTE THAT YOU MUST CHANGE THE NAME OF FOLDER):

    <Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require all denied
 </Directory>

 <Directory /usr/share>
    AllowOverride None
    Require all granted
 </Directory>

 <Directory /var/www/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
 </Directory>

 #<Directory /srv/>
 #  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
 #  AllowOverride None
 #  Require all granted
 #</Directory>

 <Directory "/var/www/html/NAME_OF_YOUR_PROJECT_FOLDER">
 Options FollowSymLinks
 AllowOverride All
 </Directory>*
    1. Restart apache