Always Get Better

Recently I had to set up a WordPress blog on a Windows 2003 server, which involved installing Apache, PHP and MySQL.  Everything went pretty well – except for the typical PHP.ini problems I shall write about later.

Once the database was set up and I had the blog running, I tried to adjust the permalink structure using .htaccess rewrite rules so they would be more human-readable.

Out of the box, mod_rewrite isn’t enabled on Windows Apache.

The steps I took to resolve the problem were:

1. Uncomment the line containing ‘LoadModule mod_rewrite modules/mod_rewrite.so‘
2. In the VirtualHost directive hosting the blog, add ‘AllowOveride All‘
3. Restart Apache

It works like a charm, now.  All the tools ship with Apache, it’s just a matter of configuring them as needed.

Tags: apache, Windows Server 2003, wordpress

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