The requested URL /about was not found on this server

Question

The home page of my wordpress website seems to be displaying correctly but if you click through to any of the other pages I get the following error message:

Answer 1

FWIW: I rebuilt a LAMP server from scratch and installed WordPress. I had the same issue after saving my Permalink setting to generate the .htaccess file. Turns out that mod_rewrite was not enabled. I ran across this post on Digital Ocean.
FTA:

First, we need to activate mod_rewrite. It’s available but not enabled with a clean Apache 2 installation.

$ sudo a2enmod rewrite

This will activate the module or alert you that the module is already enabled. To put these changes into effect, restart Apache.

$ sudo systemctl restart apache2