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dsal1951
dsal1951

Reputation: 1750

Wordpress REST API (wp-api) 404 Error: Cannot access the WordPress REST API

I have been using the Wordpress REST plugin WP-API for months now while developing locally with XAMPP. I recently migrated my site to an EC2 instance and everything is working fine except I now get a 404 with the following message whenever I try to access any endpoint on the API:

The requested URL /wordpress/wp-json/ was not found on this server

Pretty permalinks are enabled with the following structure http://.../wordpress/sample-post/ which works fine when navigating to a specific post in the browser.

Here are some details about my setup:

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I have gone through SO and the WP Support forums for several hours and am out of ideas. Thank you!

Upvotes: 103

Views: 214225

Answers (23)

Ozgur Sar
Ozgur Sar

Reputation: 2214

I had the same issue while testing REST API on a newly created domain.

I just realized that I had to restart Litespeed Web Server in order to get mod rewrite working.

Upvotes: 0

Richard
Richard

Reputation: 16812

Here's how I fixed it in 2023, had to combine various answers and documentation.

I assume you've installed php, mysql, apache, libapache2-mod-php8.1, run a2enmod php8.1; a2enmod rewrite; to install those modules, and restarted apache.

Now:

# append rewriting to your root htaccess file
echo "RewriteEngine on" >> /var/www/html/.htaccess; 

# allow only reading of this file
chmod 644 /var/www/html/.htaccess; 

# add the <directory> entry for rewrites to your default config under the <VirtualHost> entry
sed -i '/<VirtualHost \*:80>/r /dev/stdin' /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf <<EOF
<Directory /var/www/html>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
</Directory>
EOF;

service apache2 restart;

Finally you have to manually browse to go to http://yoursite/wp-admin/options-permalink.php and change permalink type to post. The default on installation is Custom and that breaks.

Warning: I'm an Apache newb and have no idea if anything I just did is secure. I'm just using it for local testing.

Upvotes: 0

Pablo Guerrero
Pablo Guerrero

Reputation: 1084

I had the AllowOverride All option in the my_site.conf file but it was missing on the my_site-le-ssl.conf (for SSL).

After adding the option in this file too, the REST API worked

Upvotes: 0

ptvty
ptvty

Reputation: 5674

On WordPress 6

You can use this URL and no need for URL Rewrite and no need to change your Permalink settings (I saw Gutenberg editor is using this URL to access REST)

http://example.com/index.php?rest_route=/wp/v2/posts

Upvotes: 6

Nitin S
Nitin S

Reputation: 7600

If you are on Windows OS change the Permalink Settings as follows:

Custom structure: /index.php/%postname%/

Permalink Settings

Upvotes: 5

Jason Is My Name
Jason Is My Name

Reputation: 939

I read through a whole bunch of articles and eventually discovered there was a force site to be https plugin installed and activated on my local, however there is no certificate set up. It was making the requests for https when I should have had the https plugin deactivated.

Once deactivated, I was able to make connections to REST API.

Not a very in depth answer but it is was my answer. Hope this saves someone some time!

Upvotes: 1

user2176437
user2176437

Reputation: 13

Try to remove any

order deny,allow deny from all allow from ...

from you .htaccess.

Upvotes: 0

Salem
Salem

Reputation: 784

For me on new website I didn't had Nginx pretty links setting enabled I add this tolocation / block

        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;

Upvotes: 6

Anutosh Chaudhuri
Anutosh Chaudhuri

Reputation: 140

If you website is https://example.wordpress.com (on wordpress) for example, use the below link which will give you the JSON response irrespective of any API settings/Permalinks etc..

If you want to see all the available endpoints use this - https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/api/console/

Remember to replace **$site** with your domain

Find the latest documentation here - https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/api/

Upvotes: 1

Anand Raja
Anand Raja

Reputation: 3126

First you've to Check if the WordPress REST API is enabled or not

The best way to check is to visit this URL: https://yoursite.com/wp-json. If you see some JSON response, REST API is enabled. If it’s showing some error page or returns to home page, REST API is not enabled. Then we've to enable it first.

In this case, you've to Enable Permalinks

  1. Visit your page's admin page (Visit https://yoursite.com/wp-json)
  2. settings > Permalinks (visit https://yoursite.com/wp-admin/options-permalink.php)
  3. Make sure Plain is not selected
  4. Choose Post Name (it's a best one)
  5. Then click on Save Changes. That will rewrite/repair your .htaccess

Please see the helping screenshots below:

Permalinks

choosing Post Name

Source

Upvotes: 21

Matthias Luh
Matthias Luh

Reputation: 623

Adding "AllowOverride All" (as hinted by other authors before) to my apache virtual host configuration on my Ubuntu server via SSH did the trick for me:

sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/my-website-name.com.conf

and also (if you use letsencrypt):

sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/my-website-name.com-le-ssl.conf

The files should then look like:

<VirtualHost *:80>
# or <VirtualHost *:443> for the SSL configuration
    
    # [...]
    
    DocumentRoot /var/www/my-website-name.com/public_html

    <Directory "/var/www/my-website-name.com/public_html">
        # this allows .htaccess files (e.g. generated by Wordpress)
        # to overwrite the apache configuration on a directory basis:
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>
    
    # [...]
    
</VirtualHost>

Don't forget to disable and re-enable the site and reload apache to apply the new configuration:

sudo a2dissite my-website-name.com.conf
sudo a2dissite my-website-name.com-le-ssl.conf
sudo a2ensite my-website-name.com.conf
sudo a2ensite my-website-name.com-le-ssl.conf
sudo service apache2 reload

Upvotes: 6

stringy
stringy

Reputation: 1353

If you have tried the other solutions on this page and they haven't worked, I had success with checking for additional .htaccess files in the root folder above your public_html folder (or wherever you have installed WordPress).

I found an extra one which may have come from a previous installation or been accidentally moved there - it was giving conflicting instructions to the 'real' .htaccess file. Deleting it fixed the problem for me.

Upvotes: 0

pavan ganvani
pavan ganvani

Reputation: 102

I was facing same issue on localhost and I solved this issue with just set RewriteBase Path in .htaccess file which is available at root folder of WordPress project setup.

**Example:** 
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /[folder-name]
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /[folder-name]/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Upvotes: 2

Zulkifl Agha
Zulkifl Agha

Reputation: 173

I faced the same problem when I migrated my site from cPanel to Google Cloud Compute Engine Instance; problem was of file permissions which was initially caused due to difference in PHP versions of current deployment from previous deployment.

Here is the fix How to deal with GCP WordPress error "This page isn’t working example.com is currently unable to handle this request. HTTP ERROR 500

Upvotes: 1

faryal rida
faryal rida

Reputation: 419

It is the file permission error, apply the following solution:

Edit this file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf Change /var/www/ Permissions from "None" to "All" Restart the apache2 server.

Upvotes: 17

Pinkeye
Pinkeye

Reputation: 61

I found that mysite/wp-json/ was not working, but mysite/?rest_route=/ was normal. This was breaking some, but not all, the REST API features used on my site.

The answer to this turned out to be a recent change to how I was running my server. This had broken REST API but this was not apparent until later.

I had changed this domain from using Apache to using nginx, and I had not correctly transferred the .htaccess customisations. The quick solution to this problem was therefore to change back to using Apache. This restored the site to working order immediately.

I will be changing this domain back to nginx in the future but when I do, I will test it and be careful not to affect the REST API.

Upvotes: 4

Patriotic
Patriotic

Reputation: 2300

I solved this issue through following steps:

  1. Navigate to ..\Apache24\conf\httpd.conf and search for LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so.

  2. Enable rewrite module by removing the # mark.

  3. Replace all the cases of AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All.

  4. Don't forget to restart apache server. :)

Upvotes: 6

mrtnmgs
mrtnmgs

Reputation: 1562

I had moved the WordPress install from a subdirectory to another, so in my case the problem was due to the WordPress config in the .htaccess files. It was trying to redirect every page but the homepage to the old directory. It was just a matter of updating olddir to newdir... This tripped me up more than once so I thought I'd put it here...

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

# END WordPress

Upvotes: 1

Jacksonkr
Jacksonkr

Reputation: 32247

I had to manually make a .htaccess, set it to chmod 664, and copy the permalink rules into it.

I also played around with

  • Settings > Permalinks
  • Manually updating .htaccess via the code at the bottom of the permalinks page after clicked "Save"
  • Adding "index.php" as one of the other answers suggests
  • Making sure mod rewrite was enabled via a2enmod

Upvotes: 4

Andy Roberts
Andy Roberts

Reputation: 945

On WPEngine and WP 4.9.2 I only had to update permalinks to get fresh, newly installed site to return v2 API calls. What I did:

  1. Create site
  2. Browse to http://yoursitename.wpengine.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts
    • get 404
  3. Go to admin, settings, permalinks, choose "Post Name"
  4. Click "Save Changes"
  5. Browse to http://yoursitename.wpengine.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts
    • success. page displays JSON response

Upvotes: 54

dlaub3
dlaub3

Reputation: 1187

I had this problem with the latest WordPress 4.7+. In my case the REST API only worked after I changed the permalinks setting to something other than "Plain", which was the default setting for my installation.

Upvotes: 57

Jitendra Popat
Jitendra Popat

Reputation: 2744

UPDATED NEW WAY

I also faced similar problem in a local project. I used index.php after my project url and it worked.

http://localhost/myproject/index.php/wp-json/wp/v2/posts

If it displays a 404 error then update permalinks first (see "Paged Navigation Doesn't Work" section

If it works, maybe you need to enable mod_rewrite, on ubuntu:

a2enmod rewrite
sudo service apache2 restart

Installation

The REST API is included in WordPress 4.7! Plugins are no longer required, just install the latest version of WordPress and you're ready to go.

If you're before 4.7:

  1. Download plugin from here: http://v2.wp-api.org/

  2. install and activate it.

Usage

To get all posts:

www.mysite.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts

For the search functionality, searching for test post looks like this:

/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?filter[s]=test

Upvotes: 201

dsal1951
dsal1951

Reputation: 1750

It turned out to be a problem with the Apache configuration.

First, I deleted the .htaccess file in the root wordpress directory.

Next, I navigated to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled and opened 000-default

All of the AllowOverride variables were set to None, which I replaced with All.

That did the trick!

Upvotes: 25

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