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Sukanta Paul
Sukanta Paul

Reputation: 792

How to enable mod_rewrite?

I've installed lamp on an UBUNTU 12.04 64bit Server using tasksel. Everything is working properly. But Now I found that per-directory .htaccess apache overriding thing is not working.

I've searched on google about the possible cause.

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/apache-htaccess/

http://smartwebdeveloper.com/apache/htaccess-problems

But none of them is working.

I need to redirect domain.com to www.domain.com. So, I'm using the following code in my .htaccess file at server root

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

# Enable Rewrite Engine
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# Redirect to www.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L] 

</IfModule>

Apache virtual host configuration:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

    DocumentRoot /var/www/
    <Directory />
            Options FollowSymLinks
            AllowOverride ALL
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/>
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
            AllowOverride ALL
            Order allow,deny
            allow from all
    </Directory>
    ...........................
    ...........................
    ...........................

apacha2.conf has this:

AccessFileName .htaccess

#
# The following lines prevent .htaccess and .htpasswd files from being
# viewed by Web clients.
#
<Files ~ "^\.ht">
    Order allow,deny
    Deny from all
    Satisfy all
</Files>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1000

Answers (1)

jerdiggity
jerdiggity

Reputation: 3665

Everything looks like it's set up correctly, so chances are that mod_rewrite is not enabled. Try running sudo a2enmod rewrite from the terminal.

Also, don't forget to reload apache (sudo service apache2 reload) and then restart apache (sudo service apache2 restart) after you make changes to any of the files you listed (not .htaccess files since they are read on every request, but the rest of the files you listed).

HTH. :)

Upvotes: 1

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