Enable Mod Rewrite in apache/debian

Enable Mod Rewrite in apache/debian

If you would like to enable mod_rewrite in your apache, for friendly URLs or other redirect requirements, please follow these instructions.

install apache – ‘su’ to root or ‘sudo’ and install apache

• apt-get install apache2

Enable mod_rewrite

• a2enmod rewrite

Verify the module is now installed

• updatedb
• locate mod_rewrite.so
• it will found in /usr/lib/apache2/modules

Load the module in the configuration

• OLD STYLE :
  cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
  touch rewrite.load
  gedit rewrite.load
  LoadModule rewrite_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_rewrite.so
  OR
• Enable override

Enable override so that mod_apache can handle requests in the specific directory

• in /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default edit
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
  AllowOverride None (from None to all)
  Order allow,deny
  allow from all

Restart apache

• /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
  or
  service apache2 restart


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