david winter » wordpress http://davidwinter.me.uk you were expecting someone else? Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:37:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 mod_rewrite and Mac OS X Personal Web Sharing http://davidwinter.me.uk/articles/2007/05/20/mod_rewrite-and-mac-os-x-personal-web-sharing/ http://davidwinter.me.uk/articles/2007/05/20/mod_rewrite-and-mac-os-x-personal-web-sharing/#comments Sun, 20 May 2007 15:24:10 +0000 David http://davidwinter.me.uk/articles/2007/05/20/mod_rewrite-and-mac-os-x-personal-web-sharing/ It was very frustrating installing a fresh WordPress on my Mac and finding that the permalinks didn’t work. Turns out the default Apache settings for personal web sharing on OS X disable .htaccess overriding.

sudo mate /etc/httpd/users/yourusername.conf

Now you’ll want to enable Apache to follow symbolic links:

Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks

And to allow .htaccess overriding:

AllowOverride All

The file should then look like:

<Directory "/Users/yourusername/Sites/">
    Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

Now in System Preferences, stop and start ‘Personal Web Sharing’. Things should work perfectly now.

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