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+#+TITLE: mod\_rewrite with Fedora 10 and ISPConfig for WordPress
+#+DATE: 2009-12-09 10:33
+#+TAGS: apache2 fedora ispconfig mod_rewrite
+
+This relates to Fedora 10 and ISPConfig 3.0.1 set up as described in
+[[http://www.howtoforge.org/perfect-server-fedora-10-ispconfig-3][this HowtoForge post]].
+
+One of my colleagues recently got interested in offering our clients
+Wordpress as a content management system, so he's been trying it out.
+
+Yesterday he found out that if he wanted to change the permalink style
+in Wordpress he needed write access to =.htaccess=, which he didn't have
+because the user rights haven't been set up very well there.
+
+So I gave him write access by using
+
+#+BEGIN_SRC sh
+  chown apache:apache .htaccess
+#+END_SRC
+
+Unfortunately this resulted in a 500 Interal Server Error.
+
+Looking at the error log for the website I tried this for it let me
+know that =RewriteEngine= directives were not allowed in the =.htaccess=.
+
+Since I didn't want to mess with the base configurations of ISPConfig
+I started looking around for other options. Eventually I found that I
+had to add something similar to this to the Apache directives field
+under options under the website's settings
+
+#+BEGIN_SRC text
+  <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
+  <Directory /var/www/[sitename]/web/>
+  Options +FollowSymLinks
+  RewriteEngine On
+  RewriteBase /
+  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
+  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
+  RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
+  </Directory>
+  </IfModule>
+#+END_SRC
+
+Of course ~[sitename]~ should be replaced with the name of your website.
+
+It all works after I restarted the apache server myself, but I do not
+know if that is completely necessary. Also it might take a few seconds
+before ISPConfig finishes editing the configuration file.