I deleted .htaccess but its effetcts remain

Question

I'm getting started with making few redirect with .htaccess but I just made something wrong. I was trying to make a redirect where when I write http://www.mydomain.com/it/about the browser jump to http://www.mydomain.com/it/about.php but I wrote something wrong! I can't remember exacly what I wrote (I took some code over the Internet several times) but the problem now is that I've deleted the .htaccess but when I try to access to http://www.mydomain.com/it/about.php the browser is redirected to http://www.mydomain.com/it/about. How can this happen???? There is not any .htaccess into the server!!!!!!

Answer 1

disable the rewrite module by typing "a2dismod rewrite" in terminal and re enable it. this will remove effects of .htaccess file.

Answer 2

Are you sure it's gone? .htaccess files are hidden for security.

Try uploading an empty .htaccess file.

Answer 3

If you use a 301-Redirect ([R=301]), the Browser will cache the redirect. Try an other browser or delete your cache