404 mod_rewrite issue SOLVED Apache2 DigitalOcean

[Chase]

Immediately after install when I tried to access my admin I got 404 error. The only page that worked was the index (I also moved my existing nibble blog to server with same issue). It took me about a day to figure this out and I thought I may save someone some time...

For the record, I'm using Digitalocean / Ubuntu 16.04 with LAMP install.

My mod_rewrite was on but not working

The fix ended up being in the apache2.conf file (and there is next to zero documentation to solve this problem online).
Go to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file

Find code:

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<Directory /var/www/>
	Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
	AllowOverride None
	Require all granted
</Directory>

Change to:

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<Directory /var/www/>
	Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
	AllowOverride All
	Require all granted
</Directory>

[Edi]

Thank you, Chase, for the addition!