Servers + Cloud ComputingLAMP, WAMP, Linux Servers, EmbeddedDietPi - Guide for Setup of features Apache .htaccess files not working Updated January 27 2025
This is due to the default security model blocking them.

Copy to Clipboardsudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf


Look for "AllowOverride None" and change it to "AllowOverride All"

Restart Apache
Copy to Clipboard sudo systemctl restart apache2


You may need to enable the rewrite extension, it is disabled by default. You can see this message in the error log:
Invalid command 'RewriteEngine', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration...

Copy to Clipboardsudo a2enmod rewrite && sudo service apache2 restart




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