Well judging by how haphazardly I solve problems in Linux, you can tell I develop on Windows for my day job!
The site’s permalinks weren’t working when I switched them to a different format. The .htaccess file was formatted correctly and accessible but it still wouldn’t work. Then I discovered the offending block resided in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf and required the change of the AllowOverride option on the www directly below as such:
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>And there you have it, now everything is magically fixed!
