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By alexmk92
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:
<VirtualHost *:80>
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.