Enabling Mod Rewrite for pretty permalinks in local Wordpress install

I've noticed that apache2 mods are not installed by default with the Wordpress plugin or at least in my installation, I know i will need mod_rewrite for changes to permalinks. On a normal hosted server i would have just added the necessary line to .htaccess but I believe it's different for local systems using nginx?

or will ssh in and sudo a2enmod rewrite be sufficient.

In etc/apache2/mods-available i just have php5_cgi.conf and php5_cgi.load do i need to add something in here instead or do i need to do anything in etc/nginx/ openmediavault_wordpress.conf file (I know that's not correct for nginx ones doing of the top of my head right now)

Cheers for any help

Is this normal for a OMV wordpress installation that i'm having to enable extra bits for any form of permalinks to work so I can navigate away from the home page. If not changing the installer plugin to include this very commonly used feature could be wise.

All links in the Wordpress 4.3 dashboard interface work however deep but any frontend created pages just result in a Nginx 404 when navigating away from the root homepage.

For now I have just returned to the default post numbers as these work.

I will see what i can find online as i'm new to Nginx as i've just used Apache previously till now. However if anyone in the OMV community knows any information it would be greatly appreciated thank you.