Enabling pretty permalinks in Bitnami WordPress with SSL
tl;dr
Edit the /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf
file and add the directives there. You need to wrap your .htaccess
stuff in a <Directory>
directive and that will be in turn inside the <VirtualHost>
directive.
<VirtualHost _default_:443>
# General setup for the virtual host
DocumentRoot "/opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs"
ServerName www.blah.com:443
ServerAdmin admin@blah.com
ErrorLog "/opt/bitnami/apache2/logs/error_log"
TransferLog "/opt/bitnami/apache2/logs/access_log"
<Directory "/opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs">
AllowOverride All
Options FollowSymLinks
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Restart Apache afterwards
sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache
Bitnami has rewrite module mod_rewrite
enabled by default on all their stacks so you don’t really need the usual <IfModule>
check.
Troubleshooting
- Check that
mod_rewrite
is enabled by making sure it’s loaded in Apache conf file
Bitnami includes rewrite module for Apache in all their applications by default.
cat /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/httpd.conf | grep 'mod_rewrite'
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
If the line has a #
at the beginning then it means it is commented out and the module is not being loaded. Edit the file with nano
adn remove the # at the beginning of the line.
Make sure that the
AllowOverride All
andOptions FollowSymLinks
directives are there. They are required for pretty permalinks to work.Make sure you have restarted Apache
sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache