.htaccess not working in amazon ec2 ubuntu instance
Solution 1
This happens because the rewrite module doesn’t come enabled by default for security reasons.
Create a new file called rewrite.conf
in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
in the file put this line LoadModule rewrite_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_rewrite.so
Now reload server sudo service apache2 restart
This worked for me and hopefully for you, but I don’t advice this for production servers. This is information for regular Ubuntu users not for a live server.
Solution 2
This is wat worked for me on a fresh EC2 instance with Ubuntu 13.10:
- a2enmod rewrite
- vim /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf
- add the following to the VirtualHost
<Directory "/var/www"> AllowOverride All </Directory>
- service apache2 restart
Solution 3
The problem is by default in apache installed on Ubuntu doesn't have .htaccess enabled so first you have to manually enable it in a config file and restart apache.
Here are the steps.
1) Login to your EC2 instance with SSH.
ssh -i "Yourkey.pem" ubuntu@yourpublicip
2) Enable Mode Rewrite, this is just incase if it's not enabled.
sudo a2enmod rewrite
3) Go to the following directory.
cd /etc/apache2/sites-available
If you use LS command here you will see the following file.
000-default.conf
That's the file with default apache configuration which is applied to your sites in /var/www/html folder.
4) Open this file for editing.
sudo nano 000-default.conf
5) Add following lines after DocumentRoot /var/www/html line.
Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all
6) Save the file and restart the apache.
sudo service apache2 restart
that's it and now your .htaccess file will work
user1491022
Updated on June 16, 2022Comments
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user1491022 almost 2 years
I have a server from amazon's ec2 service running on Linux Ubuntu ( Ubuntu Server 13.04 64 bit) and I have installed apache, php, and mysql. I have added a .htaccess file in my document root (i.e /var/www/).
Here is the code in .htaccess file as follows:
RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php
If I remove .php from url like "index1" instead of "index1.php", it returns 404 browser error. It works properly in my previous server.
I have .htaccess enabled in server. I did it using command "sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/default" and changed "AllowOverride None" to "AllowOverride All".
I have also checked .htaccess working by passing invalid value in htaccess file and it returns "Internal server error - 500" in browser.
Here is the link of my server information :
http://54.200.58.45/mytest.php
Any help in this regard will be highly appreciated.
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user1491022 over 10 yearsI have used "sudo a2enmod rewrite" to enable mod rewrite but it shows that "Module rewrite already enabled".
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EnglishAdam about 9 yearsA couple of questions for a non 'regular Ubuntu user' ....What would be the approach for a live server? What risks are in the above? Thx!
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urfusion almost 9 yearsnot worked for me.. putty return module_rewrite is already loaded skipping