Permalinks (don’t kill me) refuses to work..Yes, it results in a 404

From what you write it sounds like Apache isn’t reading/following the .htaccess at all. This can be the case if the AllowOverride setting is not active for that directory. (See this thread on StackOverflow for more information.) <Directory /var/www/> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Require all granted </Directory> Setting this (AllowOverride None -> AllowOverride All) and … Read more