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

On my MacOS Catalina machine I discovered that an additional file had been created at /etc/apache2/users/my-username.conf where the default was

AllowOverride none

Changing that to All finally got things working for me. The challenge with Mac is that its hard to get to these directories with Finder so its easy not to spot this file