Where's .htaccess?

[intelligence]

Finally was able to get Bedrock + Roots going in a Vagrant VM with Ubuntu 12.04. Anyhow. Now I have some trouble with pretty permalinks. Upon saving the permalink structure I get:

If your .htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so these are the mod_rewrite rules you should have in your .htaccess file. Click in the field and press CTRL + a to select all.

I doing “touch .htaccess” in the bedrock folder and in web, but with no luck.
Where should it be?

[Foxaii]

The touch command creates an empty file, but it doesn’t make that file writeable. You need chmod to set up your permissions correctly.

[intelligence]

Ah, alright. But still, what should be the location? Straight in Bedrock?

[kalenjohnson]

If you have an older version, it goes straight into the root folder. If you have a newer version of Bedrock that has a “web” folder, it would go in there. Basically, put it in the root folder that your website in in, or that your virtual host is pointing to.

[intelligence]

Sorry, must’ve gotten wrong permissions for the file in web.

Now it’s there and it gets updated when permalinks are changed, but I still 404 when trying to access posts or pages.

.htaccess looks like

# 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

Seems right, no?

[swalkinshaw]

Do you have Apache set up to properly use .htaccess? See this post: Another Permalink Issue

[intelligence]

AllowOverride was set to “none”, changed it to All.
Also needed to run sudo a2enmod rewrite

Thanks alot and sorry to bring another thread on the subject!