How to enable mod_rewrite on Ubuntu 12.04

Published on Thursday, September 27th 2012 at 17:17
Last updated on Tuesday, March 21st 2017 at 17:03

type on terminal “sudo a2enmod rewrite”
then you must edit your apache configuration, open your conf at “/etc/apache2/site-enabled/000-default”
search this stuffs :

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

and change to
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>

restart your apache2 with “sudo /etc/init.d/apache2/ restart”
finish„ good luck, happy exercising ;)