I’m trying to use the .htaccess file in Ubuntu 14.04 (Apache 2.4.7).

Here is what my .htaccess looks like

    # 1 YEAR
    <FilesMatch "\.(ico|svg|woff|eot|ttf)$">
    Header set Cache-Control "max-age=31536000, public"
    </FilesMatch>

    # 1 WEEK
    <FilesMatch "\.(jpg|png|gif|css|js)$">
    Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800, public"
    </FilesMatch>

    # Add correct content-type for fonts 
    AddType application/vnd.ms-fontobject .eot
    AddType font/ttf .ttf
    AddType font/otf .otf
    AddType font/x-woff .woff
    AddType image/svg+xml .svg

    # Compress compressible fonts
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/ttf font/otf image/svg+xml

I enabled mod_rewrite using a2enmod rewrite

Then I edited /etc/apache2/apache2.conf as follows

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

    AccessFileName .htaccess

However the .htaccess file is still not being loaded. If I add gibberish to the .htaccess file everything still works fine. The .htaccess is located in /var/www/.

Here is the output of apache2ctl -S

   VirtualHost configuration:
    *:80                   is a NameVirtualHost
             default server 127.0.1.1 (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf:1)
             port 80 namevhost 127.0.1.1 (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf:1)
             port 80 namevhost edmhunters.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/edmhunters.com.conf:1)
                     alias www.edmhunters.com
    ServerRoot: "/etc/apache2"
    Main DocumentRoot: "/var/www"
    Main ErrorLog: "/var/log/apache2/error.log"
    Mutex default: dir="/var/lock/apache2" mechanism=fcntl
    Mutex watchdog-callback: using_defaults
    Mutex rewrite-map: using_defaults
    PidFile: "/var/run/apache2/apache2.pid"
    Define: DUMP_VHOSTS
    Define: DUMP_RUN_CFG
    User: name="www-data" id=33
    Group: name="www-data" id=33

What did I miss here?