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How to Enable .htaccess in Apache2 on a Ubuntu Server
by Tom on Jul.14, 2009, under Linux, Linux Software, Website Design, Website Development
Iv jumped back to using my home media server as a web server for testing, and realized that apache2 wouldn’t recognize .htacess files, after some googling i found the answer, you need to open a terminal or putty session:
navigate to
cd /etc/apache2/sites-available
and open “default” up in your editor or choice
sudo nano default
Default for AllowOverride is none, it should be All, so your overall “default” file should look like this;
NameVirtualHost *
ServerAdmin admin@site.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
# This directive allows us to have apache2's default start page
# in /apache2-default/, but still have / go to the right place
# Commented out for Ubuntu
#RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/
Then all you need to do is restart apache2:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Thanks to this Ubuntu Forums post
