I installed several WordPress servers before but this is the first time I encounter this issue, where all the links must have 'index.php' in the URL (i.e. instead of test.com/games it is test.com/index.php/games), I searched for several issues and there was a similar thread here: Remove index.php from Wordpress URLs but it didn't give an answer to my problem
HYG some details from my server:
1) mod_rewrite is enabled
2) I have a virtual host configuration:
# domain name: test.com
# public: /var/www/test.com
# Admin email, Server Name (domain name) and any aliases
ServerAdmin test@gmail.com
ServerName test.com
ServerAlias www.test.com
# Index file and Document Root (where the public files are located)
# DirectoryIndex index.php
DocumentRoot /var/www/test.com
# Custom log file locations
LogLevel warn
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error-test.com.log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access-test.com.log combined
3) And I have .htaccess as follows:
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress
4) The WordPress directory permissions are rwsr_xr_x and its files are rwx_r__r__ (owner www-data:www-data)
5) Permalinks configuration is /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
I am not familiar with the .htaccess format so perhaps it needs to be adjusted some how, please advise?
The normal wordpress .htaccess is a follows
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] //you aren't escaping in your example
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress