This problem keeps hitting me each time I install a fresh wordpress blog.

Not Found

The requested URL /home-network/ was not found on this server.

Every time I have to re-google until I find the solution.

For reference, I’m running Apache2 on an Ubuntu machine.

The content appears correct in the .htaccess file within the base directory:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /index.php/$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

The issue falls within /etc/apache2/sites-available/nameoffile.conf

The following must be modified:

AllowOverride None

to

AllowOverride All

You will probably only run into this if you’re a systems administrator, or if your web-host has not set this up correctly.  Changing the wording and issuing:

service apache2 reload

Did the trick for me.  If it didn’t, you wouldn’t see this page.