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(Previous issue solved - A new issue has arisen)

1. I create a .htaccess file at var/www/html:

AuthUserFile /etc/htaccess/.htpasswd
AuthName "Authorization Required"
AuthType Basic
require valid-user

2. I enable the use of .htaccess files at /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl.conf

 <Directory /var/www/html>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
 </Directory>

3. Now, I create an .htaccess file at var/www/html/site:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/site/index.php [L]

4. So now, a URL that was previously located at http://www.example.com/site/index.php/Bool can now be accessed via http://www.example.com/Bool.

5. However, all of this set up produces nothing - .htaccess files do not work.

What’s wrong here? These the setup shown in point 3 worked on my old host.

Adam Robertson · Answer

I had a similar issue: could not get my .htacess to work properly, despite having the AllowOverride All in the site.conf file, and restarting apache.

I ended up going into apache2.conf and changing there to AllowOverride All, restarted Apache and it started working.

so in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:

<Directory /var/www/>
	Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
	AllowOverride All    << changed that to All
	Require all granted
</Directory>

fmilland · Answer

Hi, thanks for sharing this, I was breaking my head until found this post! Regards…

Adam Robertson · Answer

sure. I use /var/www as my base and created a new directory in www for each website. So /var/www/jellyfsh.com is the root folder for jellyfsh.com My .htaccess file is in the root of the web-folder.

Just a thought: have you made sure your .htaccess is readable by www-data If you created it with your user account, you might want to run: sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www

and then: sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www

I looked, and mod_rewrite is installed, so I must have done that at some point. You can check with:

<?php print_r(apache_get_modules()); ?>

Adam Robertson · Answer

…just exactly that:My changes on .htaccess were not taking. It was a wordpress site I was dealing with.After reading somewhere, I opened /etc/apache2/apache2.conf and changed line 166 to : AllowOverride All saved, restarted apache and all worked. Just to be sure I went and checked just now and it all worked…is working. Perhaps suddenly your .htaccess file might be working, but have errors?

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Cannot enable the use of .htaccess files - No results