Question
Cannot enable the use of .htaccess files - No results
- Posted on August 17, 2014
Asked by Sm64ds2
(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.
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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:
Hi,
thanks for sharing this, I was breaking my head until found this post!
Regards…
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: