How to remove 'index.php' from permalinks [WordPress on Composer]

Question

I have local server, on which I'm running WordPress with Composer.

After database migration from my local to AWS RDS, the permalinks changed it's behaviour: now there's 'index.php' in the beginning of tags, like:

http://example.com/index.php/name-of-page

Also, in the wp-admin->Settings->Permalinks the structure is custom now:

/index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

Details about my local server:

• Xubuntu 18
• Apache2
• AllowOverride All for both / and var/www/
• it's on Composer, with custom dir (wp-content is seperated from wp core)

• .htaccess:

  # BEGIN WordPress
  <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /project/public/wp/
  RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule . /project/public/wp/index.php [L]
  </IfModule>
  
  # END WordPress
  

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What I have tried:

http://dejanjanosevic.info/remove-index-php-permalink-in-wordpress/

http://derekmolloy.ie/remove-index-php-from-your-wordpress-url/

• updating permalinks
• updating composer
• selling my soul to Satan

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What are the results?

Modyfying .htaccess has no effect - just ends in 404, the only links that work are still the ones that include /index.php/. Updating permalinks from WordPress has same result.

I'm running out of ideas here.

Answer 1

I've got it.

For anyone looking for a solution to the same problem, here's guide:

1. Change permalink settings in wp-admin to pretty permalinks
2. Install mod_rewrite module in apache

3. The most important part, in etc/apache/apache2.conf (NOTE THAT YOU MUST CHANGE THE NAME OF FOLDER):

   <Directory />
       Options FollowSymLinks
       AllowOverride All
       Require all denied
    </Directory>
   
    <Directory /usr/share>
       AllowOverride None
       Require all granted
    </Directory>
   
    <Directory /var/www/>
       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
       AllowOverride All
       Require all granted
    </Directory>
   
    #<Directory /srv/>
    #  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    #  AllowOverride None
    #  Require all granted
    #</Directory>
   
    <Directory "/var/www/html/NAME_OF_YOUR_PROJECT_FOLDER">
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    </Directory>*
   

   4. Restart apache