Ok so I:
Migrated a Wordpress site from one host to another
Pretty simple, moved all the files to the new host, kept the same directory structure, kept the same database user names and passwords and copied the MySQL database over. Site loads, everything is great.
Every link is getting a error 404 page
Oh, did I copy across the .htaccess file? Yes. Cue 30 minutes of head scratching checking the new server is Apache on not nginx, stripping the .htaccess to the most basic version allowing a WordPress multisite.
I remembered! httpd.conf Sure enough, I looked under up the server's httpd.conf and in the section pertaining to /var/www/ there was 'AllowOverride none', meaning it ignored all those rules in .htaccess - I change this line to:
AllowOveride All
And it works! Simple, simple.
Techy tidbits from a veteran of a ten-year war against CentOS and a twenty-eight-year war against Apple. Oh, and in a long entente cordiale with WordPress.
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