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I'm trying to get a PHP routing library set up. They give this example for a .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

I couldn't get this to work, so I tried enabling mod_rewrite, but it says "Module rewrite already enabled".

Why is it not working properly? Thanks! I'm running Ubuntu Precise 12.04, and apache2.2.22. (Checked for any updates)

EDIT: A couple more details, it's a PuPHPet vagrant build, rewrite should be enabled.

Freddy Heppell
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5 Answers5

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You need to allow the overwrite.

<Directory "/path/to/document/root/">
  AllowOverride All


</Directory>
user162687
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Evenbit GmbH
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    This is unnecessarily permissive. Only AllowOverride is necessary for the configuration in question. Allow from All has nothing to do with the question and may not be appropriate for @randomdev's environment. – Mark Dec 19 '15 at 16:15
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First of all, set your httpd configuration to this (the path may differ with one another. In my ubuntu it's placed at /etc/apache2/sites-available/default):

DocumentRoot /var/www

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

After that, you should enable mod_rewrite with this command:

sudo a2enmod rewrite

The last one, restart your apache service:

sudo service apache2 restart

To ensure that, you can check it again from phpinfo in Configuration > apache2handler > Loaded Modules there must be written mod_rewrite and it means mod_rewrite is enabled.

metamorph
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I had the similar problem, but the other answers did not helped me. This line at the begining of .htaccess solved my problem:

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
Damjan Pavlica
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  • This did not help me either. Tried this and everything else and still got 404, a2enmod says module already enabled and I also have restarted my whole server a few times. – bxyify Nov 20 '20 at 09:09
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My problem was that I didn't have RewriteEngine on set early on in the file.

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName &URL&
        ServerAlias *.&URL&


    ServerAdmin &amp;EMAIL_ADDRESS&amp;

    DocumentRoot            /var/www/&amp;URL&amp;/public

    RewriteEngine on

    # LogLevel: Control the severity of messages logged to the error_log.
    # Available values: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
    # error, crit, alert, emerg.
    # It is also possible to configure the log level for particular modules, e.g.
    # &quot;LogLevel info ssl:warn&quot;
    LogLevel                debug

    ErrorLog                /var/www/&amp;URL&amp;/storage/logs/apache2_error.log
    TransferLog             /var/www/&amp;URL&amp;/storage/logs/apache2_transfer.log

    &lt;FilesMatch &quot;\.(cgi|html|php)$&quot;&gt;
            SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
    &lt;/FilesMatch&gt;

    # &lt;------------  Here I used to have `RewriteEngine on`

    # Handle Front Controller...
    RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^ /index.php [L,QSA]


</VirtualHost>

I dont know why but it helped when I placed RewriteEngine on higher up.

Daniel Katz
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0

In my case, I moved one site from a different partition to the Apache's partition, but I had to create a symlink for the old location pointing this folder. The problem was that DocumentRoot was not updated, kept pointing to the old path, that is a link now.

PS: It is NOT a comercial website, only an intranet for "domestic" use.

So MOD_REWRITE stopped working because DocumentRoot was not poiting to the new folder path, but to the link end.

[ partition A (Apache) ] <-- Folder moved  <-- [ FOLDER partition B ]


[ partition A (Apache) ] --> Symbolic link --> [ (link) partition B ]

When I updated DocumentRoot with the real folder that now is in "A", it solved the problem.

Sergio Abreu
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