Permalinks not working after Capistrano deploy

bedrock
1

Hi,

Everytime I deploy with Capistrano my permalinks are no longer working. I can set them manually, but that gets old.

I added my .htaccess to linked_files like mentioned in this topic: Permalink and 404 after each deploy. That didn’t seem to do the trick.

I also added made sure there is a .htaccess in the shared/ folder on my server and that there’s a symlink to it from the current/ folder.

Any ideas what could be wrong? Thank you!

2

Should be all that’s needed. Maybe Apache isn’t following symlinks?

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /var/www
    <Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
    </Directory>

Check for the FollowSymLinks directory option.

3

Thanks! Do you know where I can find these settings? I’m on shared hosting at Webfaction. Do I just add the Options FollowSymlinks and AllowOverride None to the .htaccess in the shared/ folder on the server?

4

In .htaccess it would be Options +FollowSymLinks.

This depends on what your shared host allows you to override in your .htaccess file though. There’s a chance that may not work.

5

I added Options +FollowSymLinks, but the permalinks are still broken after I deploy.

Just to make sure, this is my shared/.htaccess:

Options +FollowSymLinks

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

# END WordPress

According to the Webfaction documentation Options +FollowSymLinks is supposed to work. Are there any log files I can check or is there any way I can debug this? Thank you!

6

Oh, did you set up the linked_files with web/ included?

Like this:

set :linked_files, %w{.env web/.htaccess}

https://github.com/roots/bedrock/blob/master/config/deploy.rb#L18

7

Yes! Thank you! That seems to do the trick.

8

Sorry to revive this old thread, but I’m having this problem too.

After deploying, the theme breaks and the permalinks need refreshing. I’ve already added the following to deploy.rb

set :linked_files, fetch(:linked_files, []).push('.env', 'web/.htaccess')
after 'deploy:publishing', 'deploy:update_option_paths'

It doesn’t seem to update the paths correctly.
What am I still missing?

Also, is it normal that the whole /releases/<timestamp>/web/wp/wp-content/themes folder is set in the WordPress options instead of just current/web/wp/wp-content/themes?