Enabling .htaccess file to rewrite path (not working)

Question

All the tutorials tell me to edit the: /etc/apache2/sites-available/default but this file doesn't exist for me. Within this file I would have to edit the:

<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
#AllowOverride All
#AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo Indexes Limit Options=All, MultiViews        
Order allow,deny
allow from all </Directory>

What should the file look like and should I create it myself?

Aslo I do have a 000-default.conf file but the above 'code' isn't in there either.

Answer 1

For apache version 2.4 and later, you have to go to

/etc/apache2/apache2.conf

You have to edit that file (you should have root permission). Change directory text like this;

<Directory /var/www/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
</Directory>

Now restart apache.

service apache2 restart

Hope it works.

Answer 2

Ubuntu 14.04 (and Apache 2.4) the default DocumentRoot was changed from /var/www to /var/www/html.

firstly enable a2enmod

sudo a2enmod rewrite 

and

sudo service apache2 restart

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf

add these lines at end

<Directory /var/www/html>
    AllowOverride All
 </Directory>

and

sudo service apache2 restart

Answer 3

If you don't want to repeat the same configurtion at each upgrade / update

The best way is :

Edit or create a config file

/etc/apache2/conf-available/httpd.conf

Add

<Directory /var/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Require all granted </Directory>

Enable the config file

sudo a2enconf httpd

Restart or reload Apache

sudo service apache2 restart

or

sudo service apache2 reload

It's done!