: How to enable use of .htaccess in Apache on Ubuntu? I'm trying to enable use of htaccess file in Ubuntu 14.04 (Apache 2.4.7). I know that this question has many possible duplicates, but none

@Chiappetta492

In my case the changing AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All in
/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf helped.

All other .conf files have already had AllowOverride All.

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@Cooney921

Activate ModRewrite:

sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

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@Berumen354

First Step

Open file as

sudo vim /etc/apache2/apache2.conf


Second Step

remove comment sign (#) if you find it before this line ( line number 187 approx.)

AccessFileName .htaccess

Third Step

Then find the line where there is

<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>


replace "None" with "All"

AllowOverride All


And voila... .htaccess works!!

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@Kaufman445

In /etc/apache2/apache2.conf remove comment sign (#) from AccessFileName .htaccess
The name of your Apache configuration file is not standard. You can rename it to default.conf in Windows and rename it to default in Linux. In Linux based OS run this code in terminal:

sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

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