Wordpress issue: after migration only homepage works

1. Login to your wp-admin
2. Go to Settings > Permalinks
3. Don't make any changes, just click "Save Changes" button.

Your site's secondary page would work now.

I too have the same issue, fixed it creating .htaccess in the root directory with following content:

/var/www/html/.htaccess

# BEGIN WordPress<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>RewriteEngine OnRewriteBase /RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-fRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-dRewriteRule . /index.php [L]</IfModule># END WordPress

Along with editing httpd.conf placed in /etc/httpd/conf to set value of AllowOverride directive to All for the /var/www/html directory, as below:

<Directory "/var/www/html">Options Indexes FollowSymLinksAllowOverride AllOrder allow,denyAllow from all</Directory>

And finally restarting apache:

sudo service httpd restart

For all the steps related to deployment you can find here - Hosting WordPress Application on Centos Box.

I posted this answer because I didn't find an answer which offered all possible solutions. Consider this answer as a pleasant checklist which should help you to fix this issue.

a) Permalinks update. The following steps rebuild the internal settings.

a) Login to your WordPress dashboard.
b) Go to Settings -> Permalinks.
c) Don't make any changes, just click "Save Changes" button.

b) .htaccess needs the settings for the rewrite engine:

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

c) Also, due to an error in the Apache log file the following entry was needed as well in the your-wordpress.conf Apache file which is mostly in the /etc/apache2/vhostd.d directory.

<Directory your-wordpress-directory>  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks  AllowOverride All  Order allow,deny  Allow from all</Directory>

d) Assure mod_rewrite is enabled

a2enmod rewriteRestart Apache