: Mod_rewrite doesn't work at all I have my small website (made for study purposes) on localhost and I am trying to get .htaccess working (note that I am a complete beginner to .htaccess). So

@Cooney921

If your .htaccess is not being read by the server, then that's the problem you need to fix first. Enabling .htaccess files is done using the AllowOverride directive, which tells Apache to look for that file in the specified folder for additional configuration info.

If you're using the default vhost (which will be somewhere like /etc/apache2/sites-available/default), then check that file for:

AllowOverride None


and change it to:

AllowOverride All


If it appears in that file multiple times, you only want to edit the one relating to your DOCUMENT_ROOT directory.

If the line isn't in there, check your main Apache config file instead.

If you've created a new vhost, you'll need to add a new <Directory> block:

<Directory "/path/to/your/docroot">
AllowOverride All
</Directory>


Alternatively, anything you put in a .htaccess file could instead be put in the vhost itself.

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