Page found with “Plain” permalink but not with “Post name”

Question

I'm working locally on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS machine, with apache2 server. I started developing the site on Windows 10 before moving to Ubuntu.

I now have this problem:

When I set Permalinks to "Post name" all pages, except the front page, are not found by the server.

By the way, when moving to Ubuntu I also changed the site url. However, I did similar changes when moving the site to a remote server with no problem at all.

My .htaccess is writable looks like this:

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

Answer 1

For permalinks to work, you need mod_rewrite module enabled on Apache server. Check your Apache configuration and make sure mod_rewrite is installed and enabled.

Here is the easy to follow tutorial for Ubuntu 16.04 to enable Rewrite module: How To Rewrite URLs with mod_rewrite for Apache on Ubuntu 16.04