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AllowOverride None in httpd.conf is too high security to permit WordPress to use Search Engine friendly URLs
Using Amazon Linux and perhaps other iterations of Centos / Redhat sets high security, which messes with WordPress being able to use search engine friendly URLs.
Go in your /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file and change references to AllowOverride
AllowOverride All
I left it as none in the cgi-bin directory since I don’t use that much anymore and it is better to keep it secure. You might even just delete that directory.
AllowOverride Not Enabled Your server may not have the AllowOverride directive enabled. If the AllowOverride directive is set to None in your Apache httpd.config file, then .htaccess files are completely ignored. In this case, the server will not even attempt to read .htaccess files in the filesystem. When this directive is set to All, then any directive which has the .htaccess Context is allowed in .htaccess files. Example of enabled AllowOverride directive in httpd.config: Options Foll