I just fired up a CentOS7 Droplet. Then installed LAMP stack by following these instructions:
I see the “Testing 1,2,3…” page when I visit my server’s IP address, so I assume everything to be working fine. However, when I try to enable mod_rewrite, I see the following error:
[user@server conf]$ sudo a2enmod rewrite [sudo] password for user: sudo: a2enmod: command not found
What am I doing wrong? After much searching I found this Apache help document but it’s just way over the top for me to understand: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_rewrite.html
Any help offered would be greatly appreciated.
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Hey there,
a2enmod is a Debian/Ubuntu command. You’ll need to edit the Apache config file for a CentOS LAMP server.
What you’d want to do is edit the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file and make sure that the AllowOverride flag for the <Directory "/var/www/html"> block is changed from None to All.
Basically it should be something like this: (Note: there are many comment lines in the default httpd.conf file)
<Directory "/var/www/html">
Options .....
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
Happy coding,
Jon Schwenn Platform Support Specialist DigitalOcean
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