August 27, 2013
Chris
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How to enable mod_rewrite in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

A little note first: This is the most seen way to enable mod_rewrite in tutorials. However, it’s not the best way. The correct way would be to setup a vhost and change its config, but unless you are a professional and know exactly what you do this thing will do the job perfectly.

Activate the mod_rewrite module with

sudo a2enmod rewrite

and restart the apache

sudo service apache2 restart

To use mod_rewrite from within .htaccess files, edit the default VirtualHost with

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

and change the first two occurrences of

AllowOverride None

to

AllowOverride All

Save and exit the nano editor via CTRL-X, “y” and ENTER.

Restart the server again:

sudo service apache2 restart

Voila! To check if everything is activated correctly, check your phpinfo() output. It should have this in it:

mod-rewrite-in-php-install

 

This article was written quite a while ago (10 years), please keep this in mind when using the information written here. Links, code and commands might be outdated or broken.

6 Comments

  • Desmo
    August 26, 2015 2:05 pm

    Thank you so much! This has solved a problem I’ve been having with WordPress permalinks.

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  • Daniel Casserly
    August 17, 2014 2:11 pm

    You are a legend! I had read lots of tutorials on setting up mod_rewrite but none had added the changes to the default file which saved me no end of heartache. Thanks!!

    Reply
  • Rogerkael
    April 12, 2014 5:41 am

    Hi ,I’m following this tutorial ;but in the step of “sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default” I don’t have such “default” file on my system(Ubuntu 13.10) ;in that directory only have two files: “000-default.conf ” and ” default-ssl.conf” ;can someone give a help? about what’s going on.thanks

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