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I have tried to change mode of .htaccess in wordpress folder to 644. Yet, I get

Not Found
The requested URL /wordpress/features/ was not found on this server.

I keep reading about rearranging my .htaccess to get Permalinks working. Unable to understand.

Here are the details of my .htaccess

# Comment
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteBase /wordpress/
        RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|?|&)s2member_file_download=.+
        RewriteRule .* - [E=no-gzip:1]
</IfModule>
# BEGIN FlexiCache Standalone
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}        localhost$
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD}   GET
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}      !^/wp-
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE}      !(wordpress_logged_in|comment_author|wp-postpass)
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}      ^/$
    RewriteRule ^(.*)               wp-content/plugins/flexicache/standalone.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END FlexiCache Standalone
# BEGIN W3TC Browser Cache
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
    <IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
        BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
        BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4.0[678] no-gzip
        BrowserMatch bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
        BrowserMatch bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
        Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule mod_filter.c>
        AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css application/x-javascript text/x-component text/html text/richtext image/svg+xml text/plain text/xsd text/xsl text/xml image/x-icon
    </IfModule>
</IfModule>
<FilesMatch ".(css|js|htc|CSS|JS|HTC)$">
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
        Header set Pragma "public"
        Header set Cache-Control "max-age=31536000, public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate"
    </IfModule>
    FileETag None
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
         Header set X-Powered-By "W3 Total Cache/0.9.2.4"
    </IfModule>
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch ".(html|htm|rtf|rtx|svg|svgz|txt|xsd|xsl|xml|HTML|HTM|RTF|RTX|SVG|SVGZ|TXT|XSD|XSL|XML)$">
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
        Header set Pragma "public"
        Header set Cache-Control "max-age=3600, public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate"
    </IfModule>
    FileETag None
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
         Header set X-Powered-By "W3 Total Cache/0.9.2.4"
    </IfModule>
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch ".(asf|asx|wax|wmv|wmx|avi|bmp|class|divx|doc|docx|eot|exe|gif|gz|gzip|ico|jpg|jpeg|jpe|mdb|mid|midi|mov|qt|mp3|m4a|mp4|m4v|mpeg|mpg|mpe|mpp|otf|odb|odc|odf|odg|odp|ods|odt|ogg|pdf|png|pot|pps|ppt|pptx|ra|ram|svg|svgz|swf|tar|tif|tiff|ttf|ttc|wav|wma|wri|xla|xls|xlsx|xlt|xlw|zip|ASF|ASX|WAX|WMV|WMX|AVI|BMP|CLASS|DIVX|DOC|DOCX|EOT|EXE|GIF|GZ|GZIP|ICO|JPG|JPEG|JPE|MDB|MID|MIDI|MOV|QT|MP3|M4A|MP4|M4V|MPEG|MPG|MPE|MPP|OTF|ODB|ODC|ODF|ODG|ODP|ODS|ODT|OGG|PDF|PNG|POT|PPS|PPT|PPTX|RA|RAM|SVG|SVGZ|SWF|TAR|TIF|TIFF|TTF|TTC|WAV|WMA|WRI|XLA|XLS|XLSX|XLT|XLW|ZIP)$">
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
        Header set Pragma "public"
        Header set Cache-Control "max-age=31536000, public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate"
    </IfModule>
    FileETag None
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
         Header set X-Powered-By "W3 Total Cache/0.9.2.4"
    </IfModule>
</FilesMatch>
# END W3TC Browser Cache

# BEGIN s2Member GZIP exclusions
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /wordpress/
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|?|&)s2member_file_download=.+
    RewriteRule .* - [E=no-gzip:1]
</IfModule>
# END s2Member GZIP exclusions

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

# END WordPress
# BEGIN Security advice from http://www.problogdesign.com/wordpress/11-best-ways-to-improve-wordpress-security/
# 8 â No Directories Should be Available for Browsing
# By default in most hosting, index of directories are shown in web browsers. This has a purpose but it also means that you reveal the content of any directory that has no index.html or index.php.

# Modifying this behavior is easy with Apache, just add the following line of code to the .htaccess file in the root directory (In the same place as the wp-config.php file).
Options All -Indexes
# END Security advice

Edit :
Deactivated all plugins, did the sudo a2enmod rewrite and sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart. Enabled permalinks, refreshed the page. The .htaccess file was created automatically. Home page shows up ok (as always), none of the other pages/links work. I tried it on my localhost. My website is hosted on www.mcruiseon.com

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

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4 comments

Anonymous says:

March 27, 2023 at 5:03 pm
Sounds like to that the Allow Override directive is still set to NONE for your VHOST

By default this is disabled, so even if you enable mod_rewrite via sudo a2enmod rewrite your .htaccess will be ignored.

You’ll want to login to your server (via Terminal / shell) and then …

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

look through the file for:
```
<Directory /var/www/>
    AllowOverride None
    Options MultiViews FollowSymlinks
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    Header Set Cache-Control no-cache
</Directory>
```
Change the AllowOverride to ALL

Ctrl+x and save the file

then

sudo apache restart or sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

see also http://drupal.org/node/134439

Let me know if the Allow Override was off please?
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Anonymous says:

March 27, 2023 at 5:03 pm

You have rewrite rules for two different caching plugins and s2 member in there. The error you receive means WordPress is not even processing the request. I suggest you disable your plugins, back up your htaccess file and then delete it, and then visit your permalinks settings page and save to have WordPress regenerate your rewrite rules. If there is a permissions issue with your htaccess file, you will see an error on the permalinks screen. Test your permalinks to see if they’re working, then re-enable only the plugins you are using, which means choosing one caching plugin.

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Anonymous says:

March 27, 2023 at 5:03 pm

Sounds to me like you don’t have mod_rewrite enabled on your server?

If you have shell access to the server try: sudo a2enmod rewrite and then
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

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Anonymous says:

March 27, 2023 at 5:03 pm

Have you tried, putting the last block at the top?.

My guess somewhere you end up in some sort of endless loop, or it just never reaches the actual wordpress rewrite.

Start from scratch, with only your wordpress urls, can you test that. and let us know if that worked. and keep working from there on. Doesn’t surprise me it get’s messed up looking like this.

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