Connecting the dots... » indexes http://blog.rajatpandit.com Thoughts on Web Development, Infrastructure and Application Scalability Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:21:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 How to enable apache mod_rewrite on ubuntu http://blog.rajatpandit.com/2009/02/12/how-to-enable-mod_rewrite-on-ubuntu/ http://blog.rajatpandit.com/2009/02/12/how-to-enable-mod_rewrite-on-ubuntu/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:40:03 +0000 rp http://blog.rajatpandit.com/?p=208 I have been moving my development to Linux lately and had the first real struggle getting the rewrite stuff working on Apache. Problem wasn’t that I didn’t know how to do it, (BTW usually i would prefer to have a self compiled version of Apache as I would know what’s in it) but that the configuration files were all so different from what I am used on Leopard and BSD etc.. Anyway so here’s what I did.

# sudo a2enmod rewrite
# sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

To disable an Apache 2 module, you can run:

# sudo a2dismod rewrite
# sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

That does the reverse.

With mod_rewrite enabled, you can use the .htaccess file.By the way in your directory permissions, you must set AllowOverride to “all” like this:

[config]

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
allow from all

[/config]

HTH

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