Title: permalinks problem on MAC
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# permalinks problem on MAC

 *  [Famous](https://wordpress.org/support/users/famous/)
 * (@famous)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-problem-on-mac/)
 * Permalinks won’t work. Need help getting my permalinks to work.
 * [http://localhost/mySite/?p=123](http://localhost/mySite/?p=123) <<< works fine
   
   [http://localhost/mySite/blog/2013/04/16/sample-post/](http://localhost/mySite/blog/2013/04/16/sample-post/)
   <<< will not work
 * I am running a MAC 10.8.3 with Apache and PHP.
 * When I change this:
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
 *     ```
       #
           # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
           # It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
           #   Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
           #
           AllowOverride None
       ```
   
 * To this:
 *     ```
       AllowOverride All
       ```
   
 * I get this error:
 *     ```
       Internal Server Error
   
       The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
       ```
   
 * My htaccess is:
 *     ```
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /mySite/
       RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
   
       # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
       RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]
   
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
       RewriteRule ^ - [L]
       RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
       RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
       RewriteRule . index.php [L]
       ```
   
 * I also have this in my user/mySite config file
 *     ```
       <Directory "/users/mySite">
       Options Indexes MultiViews
       Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
       Order allow,deny
       Allow from all
       AllowOverride all
       </Directory>
       ```
   
 * Any help is much appreciated. Thanks

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 *  [Abhishek Ghosh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abhishek_ghosh/)
 * (@abhishek_ghosh)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-problem-on-mac/#post-3664903)
 * There are two `.conf` files for the built in Apache in OS X, one is for the username,
   which demand the non-conflicting setting – `AllowOverride None` to avoid the 
   conflict in one. That explains the reason for your getting error. Another AllowOverride
   settings is in the `httpd.conf` file.
 * AllowOverride should be set to All here (in `/private/etc/apache2/Sites`) in 
   site-named `.conf` file. You will see a dummy `Guest.conf`file there. I have 
   opened it right now in iTerm2, its showing me the default :
 *     ```
       <Directory "/Users/Guest/Sites/">
           Options Indexes MultiViews
           AllowOverride None
           Order allow,deny
           Allow from all
       </Directory>
       ```
   
 * In your case its `mySite.conf`. **You have edited it rightly to AllowOverride
   all**. Actually the file name should be `{username}.conf`. `username` is your
   user account’s short name (like mine is abhishekghosh, you will see on the top
   bar like in my case abhishekghosh@Abhisheks-Mac-Book-Pro).
    Create that thing
   it in `/etc/apache2/users/` location and copy paste these :
 *     ```
       <Directory "/Users/username/Sites/">
        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All AuthConfig
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
        </Directory>
       ```
   
 * Save it.
 * `cd` to `/users/mySite` (in your case). chown the .htaccess like `chown mySite.
   htaccess` (its from your given names, correct yourself if they is/are different).
 * Do not change anything in `httpd.conf` file.
 * Restart Apache :
 * `sudo apachectl restart`
 * Now your Mac will hear your .htaccess directive.
 *  Thread Starter [Famous](https://wordpress.org/support/users/famous/)
 * (@famous)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-problem-on-mac/#post-3664914)
 * couldn’t get that to work.
    I remember I setup my websites a bit different, not
   sure if that has anything to do with it. Instead of: Documents/AllMySites/site1
   Documents/AllMySites/site2
 * I had them setup as:
    Documents/site1 Documents/site2
 * I did what you said, I created this:
 *     ```
       <Directory "/Users/site1/">
        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All AuthConfig
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
        </Directory>
       ```
   
 * and put it in:
 *     ```
       apache2/users/site1.conf
       ```
   
 * After I created it, I ran this command:
 *     ```
       sudo apachectl restart
       ```
   
 * But no dice 🙁
 * Any other ideas? And thanks for your help so far.
 *  Thread Starter [Famous](https://wordpress.org/support/users/famous/)
 * (@famous)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-problem-on-mac/#post-3664980)
 * did I miss something?
 * I could not change directory site1 – I get this:
    -bash: cd: /users/site1: No
   such file or directory
 *  [Abhishek Ghosh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abhishek_ghosh/)
 * (@abhishek_ghosh)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-problem-on-mac/#post-3664989)
 * > I remember I setup my websites a bit different, not sure if that has anything
   > to do with it.
 * If the folder location / name (s) are different, then it will not work.
    Documents
   folder is under (on my Mac) :
 * `~/Users/abhishekghosh/Documents`
 * abhishekghosh is my UNIX username. Your will be different. Run `users` command
   on Terminal / iTerm2 to get your name.
 * That username folder is the default HOME of the user. Under that the Document
   folder is located.
 * So, in my case, if I had same named folders, the full UNIX path would be :
 * `/Users/abhishekghosh/Documents/site1`
 * Replace abhishekghosh with your username. Correct the paths, edit the files there.
   It must work. cd to :
 * `cd Users/abhishekghosh/Documents/site1`
 * Change abhishekghosh to your username, it will work. ‘/’ is root.
 * Second way :
 * Else you can set symlink :
 * cd to root :
 * `cd /`
 * run :
 * `ln -s /Users/abhishekghosh/Documents/site1 Users/site1`
 * change abhishekghosh to your user name. Do not do error in upper / lower case–`
   Users` not `users`.
 * (I have Taken that, there is no `Documents` named folder at root.)
 *  Thread Starter [Famous](https://wordpress.org/support/users/famous/)
 * (@famous)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-problem-on-mac/#post-3664994)
 * My web files are located here:
 * Library/WebServer/Documents/mySite1
    Library/WebServer/Documents/mySite2 Library/
   WebServer/Documents/mySite3 etc…
 * That was my disconnect, I knew something was different about my setup, but it
   had been so long ago. You have saved me much heart ache my friend and in the 
   process taught me quite a bit. Thank you.
 * I had to point the .conf file here:
 *     ```
       <Directory "/Library/WebServer/Documents/fam-os">
       ```
   
 * That enabled my .htaccess to be read as you stated. Anyhow thank you so much 
   for your help!
 *  [Abhishek Ghosh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abhishek_ghosh/)
 * (@abhishek_ghosh)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-problem-on-mac/#post-3665029)
 * > That enabled my .htaccess to be read as you stated. Anyhow thank you so much
   > for your help!
 * Thats great and you are welcome mate.

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