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Wordpress Permalinks

You need to specify the permalink format in your .htaccess for it to work, otherwise, you will get a 404.

Here's what WP writes to the .htaccess file when I have "postname" selected in Permalinks:

# BEGIN WordPress

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

# END WordPress

Everything I've found seems to say that is correct, yet all pages are 404.
When I change back to "default", the .htaccess file is essentially empty.

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If someone refers to herself / himself as a "guru", they probably aren't.

Can you paste the format you are using?

Thanks for the nudge. It was actually apache ignoring it.
/etc/apache2/sites-available

<Directory /var/www/wordpress>
        Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
</Directory>
 
Should have been....
 
<Directory /var/www/wordpress>
        Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
</Directory>
 

Great! Works now?

Like a charm.