This will be a rushed post so it won’t look pretty. I just wanted to get this out there as soon as I could!
Recently I set up a new Ubuntu server with WordPress installed on Linode for a new project I’m working on. It is a Multisite project.
Everything went as could be expected until I tried to create, and edit a new page. I got “Publishing Failed” messages and in Google Chrome Console a number of “wp-json 404” errors.
Most solutions refer to saving Permalinks or resetting the .htaccess file.
This did not work. Also, this project is on a WordPress Multisite (with subdomain setup) which I suppose complicated things a little.
After a lot of digging it appeared to me that .htaccess was not being written to, or that there was some problem related to that and the Apache configuration for the site.
I looked at Apache conf files, made changes to <Directory “path”> and moved “AllowOverride All” higher up the list but this did not work either.
Finally, I had to hit myself in the head because I had been editing the Virtual Host for port 80! not the SSL port 443 conf file!
Once I realised this, I opened up the Virtual Host file for port 443 and added the AllowOverride All inside the
<Directory>
</Directory>
section. And all worked well!
For me the correct file to check and edit was:
<domainname>-le-ssl.conf
Rather than <domainname>.conf
Both files are found in /etc/apache2/sites-available/
