.htaccess not being loaded in Ubuntu 14.04 (Apache 2.4.7)

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?