Hi

I've followed the How To Set Up Mod_Rewrite guide.

• I've enabled mod_rewite
• Used sudo a2enmod rewrite to test it's been enabled. Terminal outputs: Module rewrite already enabled
• All my website files are in /var/www/html

The guide says,

To allow the .htaccess file to override standard website configs, start by opening up the configuration file.

I ran this command sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default and the file was empty

So I copied and pasted the example

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

and ran sudo service apache2 restart to restart the apache server.

I'm using a .htaccess file I've used for other websites, so unless there's anything specific I need to include for Digital Ocean, it should work...

The .htaccess is inside the html folder located at /var/www/html

I've cleared the cache, restarted the browser and the mod_rewrite isn't working?

I then noticed the example code above was pointing at /var/www/ so I changed it to /var/www/html

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

Cleared the cache, restarted the browser and the mod_rewrite still isn't working?

Any ideas?

I'm very impressed with the speed of Digital Ocean Hosting! Would like to get this fixed :)