Enable RewriteRule

To enable it the rewrite module, run "apache2 enable module rewrite":

sudo a2enmod rewrite 

You need to restart the webserver to apply the changes:

sudo service apache2 restart 

If you plan on using mod_rewrite in .htaccess files, you also need to enable the use of .htaccessfiles by changing AllowOverride None to AllowOverride FileInfo. For the default website, edit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default:

    <Directory /var/www/>             Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews             # changed from None to FileInfo             AllowOverride FileInfo             Order allow,deny             allow from all     </Directory>