WordPress 3.8.1 – Permalink Troubles

Hello there!

I’ve been trying to figure out how to get “pretty links” to work on my local development machine. I am using Apache 2.4.7 (x64) with PHP configured through mod_fastcgi 2.3.9 (also x64); all built for Windows machines.

I have direct access to all of Apache’s server configuration files. I use VirtualHosts, along with hacks to my hosts file ( to fake DNS registrations on my machine ) to work with multiple sites at the same time. Below is the current configuration for my particular WordPress Installation.

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<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot "C:/rel/httpd/docs/wordpress.test"
ServerName wordpress.test
ServerAlias www.wordpress.test
ErrorLog "logs/wordpress.test-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/wordpress.test-access.log" common

<Directory "C:/rel/httpd/docs/wordpress.test">
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>

<IfModule dir_module>
DirectoryIndex index.php
</IfModule>

</VirtualHost>

The .htaccess file WordPress generates is writable; here is it’s current configuration:


# 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

If you need any additional information; let me know! I’ve been going crazy over how to set this up correctly!