How to fix permalinks not working with Vagrant and WordPress?

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I am using Vagrant to build up a little WordPress development VM. When I select permalinks (postname) then the page from an article doesn’t load. However, when I select the standard link (i.e page id) all is working good.
I’ve used the service PuPHPet to build the VM.

My settings can be found here

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I am using WordPress 3.9.1 and Apache2
I’ve enabled mod_rewrite be executing: 

a2enmod rewrite

And my .htaccess file from WordPress is as follows: 

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /svisa/
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /svisa/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

it has the following permissions and ownership: 

-rw-rw-rw- 1 vagrant www-data   248 May 30 14:52 .htaccess

My virtualhost file for the site (/var/www/svisa/) can be found here.

from my host computer, I browse to the site via adress: http://wpdev-vm/svisa/
where wpdev-vm is the name of the vm.

Does anybody know what I am missing to make the permalinks work?

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  1. I solved the problem myself.

    In the default apache configuration, under /etc/apache2/sites-enabled, where mine is called 15-default.conf

    This was declared under the document root:

       <Directory "/var/www">
     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
     AllowOverride None
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all
   </Directory>

    I had to change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All. Thus you’ll get the following:

       <Directory "/var/www">
     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
     AllowOverride All
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all
   </Directory>

    After that, the permalinks started working.

  2. The (correct) answer above says that you need to change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All in your xxx-default.conf file found in the /etc/apache2/sites-enabled directory.

    However, in my vagrant box (precise64) none of the allowOverride or <Directory /var/www/>... code was present to begin with in the default.conf file.

    I ended up having to add all of it between the VirtualHost tags, like below:

    <VirtualHost *:80>
    # Other stuff
    <Directory /var/www/>
       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
       AllowOverride All
       Order allow,deny
       allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

    And then having to restart apache, like below, for it to work.

    sudo service apache2 restart