Permalinks on WordPress (amazon EC2)

Motivation: in my particular case I moved a WordPress site from Bluehost to amazon’s EC2. Permalinks were not working.
Solution: I had to modify the override option from my httpd service.

1. Go to /etc/httpd/conf and edit httpd.conf```

    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
   

   ```

2. Change also AllowOverride if it is set to None. ```

   # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files. # It can be “All”, “None”, or any combination of the keywords: # Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit # AllowOverride All ```

3. I you haven’t created it yet, place in the root directory of your wordpress installation a .htaccess file with the following contents: ```

   # BEGIN WordPress

   RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

   # END WordPress

   ```

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