WSL 2 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Wordpress Permalinks not working with htaccess file

Recently setting up Wordpress on LAMP stack on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and as standard procedure to enable permalinks you have to include a Permalink .htaccess in top public_html directory.







.htaccess file 

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

However, this did not work. And had to adjust the vhosts conf file :

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<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost ServerName yoursite.com DocumentRoot /var/www/yoursite.com/public_html <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> <Directory /var/www/yoursite.com/public_html> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined </VirtualHost>

Vhosts file located in 
/etc/apache2/sites-available
Don’t forget to restart apache after editing the conf file:
sudo service apache2 restart