only default permalinks working wordpress others become 404 error

Question

My problem is in my wordpress site only default permalinks is working.. When I change permalinks all pages become not found.. only home page is showing.

When I chang

Answer 1

I had the exact same issue and fixed it by running

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Then restarted apache. Apparently the issue is caused by mod_rewrite potentially not working properly on ubuntu.

I found the solution here