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In order to use .htaccess on our Apache server, we need to enable the option in the Apache configuration file.
To do this, we open the file:
sudo vi /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
Once it’s open, we need to go to the line that says AllowOverride None and change it to:
AllowOverride All
And now we need to restart apache2
sudo service apache2 restart
If we still can’t use our .htaccess file, we need to enable the rewrite module
sudo a2enmod rewrite
And restart Apache
If the page gives an error when loading, it means we have an error in the .htaccess file and we need to review it.
