Can't get pretty permalinks to work without index.php

Question

I've worked with WordPress for a while now and this is the first time I've had this problem, I can't get my permalinks to work without index.php on the URL even though mod_rewrite is enabled, a few things that might help figure the problem out:

• I'm using apache2 and mod_rewrite is enabled, I doubled checked by displaying the phpinfo()

• The .htaccess file gets written just fine when I update the permalink options and the contents are default WP Redirect rules but just in case here it is:

  # BEGIN WordPress
  <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /
  RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
  </IfModule>
  
  # END WordPress
  

• The permalink common settings on the option page don't actually show the /index.php/ part (sometimes when I've used IIS they show it there), if I use any of the common url structures I get a 404 page (not the 404.php one on my theme but the browsers 404 one) but if I add /index.php/%postname%/ for example it works just fine.

Does anyone know what might be wrong? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Sigh had to add this to the httpd.conf file on the webserver:

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
</Directory>

First time I have to add it manually, oh well it works fine now :)