.htaccess not working on my Ubuntu 14.04 LAMP Stack

Posted on July 10, 2014

I have just configured my LAMP stack on my Ubuntu 14.04 distribution and want to set .htaccess up to serve a website I am building for a client (he is reluctant for me to use NGINX as his current site sits on top of APACHE)

I followed the tutorial https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-the-htaccess-file and configured a virtual host for my domain, however I am still unable to use the .htaccess file in my projects root, whenever I try to serve a page I get a 404 error.

The .conf file for my domain looks like:

ServerAdmin alexmk92@live.co.uk
ServerName alexsims.me
ServerAlias www.alexsims.me
DocumentRoot /var/www/alexsims.me

<Directory />
		Options FollowSymLinks
		AllowOverride None
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www>
		Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
		AllowOverride None
		Order allow,deny
		allow from all
</Directory>


ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

I tried to change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All but that caused an internal 500 erorr, can anyone help me out here?

Regards, Alex.

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