[@drreaper Member 13 years, 10 months ago]

I have been working on this for four weeks. Doesn’t anyone know how to configure this on a Ubuntu computer? I can see the apache2 default page but I cannot see my /blog page from the internet. I have tried configuring apache2, the WordPress database, I DMZ’ed the router to the ubuntu machine. There has to be something I am missing. Maybe the redirect I made to get buddypress 404 pages to work is somehow messing things up.

[@drreaper Member 13 years, 10 months ago]

Every little bit helps.

[@drreaper Member 13 years, 10 months ago]

Hi Paul,
“Configure Apache to listen to all requests on external IPs rather than localhost.”
That is the trick isn’t it. I have tried everything to get the computer to listen to the internet and I cannot do it. As I said before the default apache page shows from the internet but I can’t get it to open the /blogs directory.

[@drreaper Member 13 years, 10 months ago]

Here is my .htaccess file in case yours is blank like mine was.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [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).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-aA-Z-]+/)?(.*.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

[@drreaper Member 13 years, 10 months ago]

It’s working! ok here is what you do if anyone else needs help. Follow the instructions here
http://www.lavluda.com/2007/07/15/how-to-enable-mod_rewrite-in-apache22-debian/
make sure to edit the default in the /etc/apache2/default (I think I did default-ssl also) the instructions are wrong and point to /000-default
restart apache2 using “sudo service apache2 restart” not the outdated one in the instructions

[@drreaper Member 13 years, 10 months ago]

I have found many different pages on setting up the .htaccess and mod_rewrite.so, however none of them seemed to work. As far as the perms go I gave everything 777 in the blog directory to eliminate the ftp as the source of the problem. It still hasn’t worked.
Here is what I have been doing. 1) follow instructions to setup .htaccess and mod_rewrite. 2) setup perms 3) if still not working give 777 to everything. 4) if still not working restore image and start over. 5) do this until you run out of instructions 6) ask for help.

If anyone has any instruction to setup .htaccess and mod_rewrite and vsftpd I will try them. I have tried all that I can find on the web so far.

[@drreaper Member 13 years, 11 months ago]

It happens on both custom and default themes.

[@drreaper Member 13 years, 11 months ago]

This issue is why I am here also.