This relates to Fedora 10 and ISPConfig 3.0.1 set up as described in this HowtoForge post One of my colleagues recently got interested in offering our clients WordPress as a content management system, so he’s been trying it out. Yesterday he found out that if he wanted to change the permalink style in WordPress he needed write access to .htaccess, which he didn’t have because the user rights haven’t been set up very well there. So I gave him write access by using
chown daemon:daemon .htaccess
Unfortunately this resulted in a 500 Interal Server Error. Looking at the error log for the website I tried this for it let me know that RewriteEngine directives were not allowed in the .htaccess. Since I didn’t want to mess with the base configurations of ISPConfig I started looking around for other options. Eventually I found that I had to add something similar to this to the Apache directives field under options under the website’s settings
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> <Directory /var/www/[sitename]/web/> Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </Directory> </IfModule>
Of course [sitename] should be replaced with the name of your website. It all works after I restarted the apache server myself, but I do not know if that is completely necessary. Also it might take a few seconds before ISPConfig finishes editing the configuration file.
WordPress permalinks were not being rewritten, obviously now because the .htaccess was not overriding the default setting of AllowOverride , which defaults to None, hence the directives were not being looked at there. Setting this to All in httpd.conf solved this for me.
—from the config file
#
# 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
Adding RewriteEngine on and changing AllowOverride to All solved this for me.
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