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Asked: 2026-06-10T20:57:02+00:00

I have a local environment working fine. Pasted a test route in .htaccess and

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I have a local environment working fine. Pasted a test route in .htaccess and it works as expected (re-routes me to google).

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule testpage\.html http://www.google.com [R]

I pasted the same thing on my development server (Unbutu 12.04) and it simply gives me a Not Found page. When I verify it on the devserver by running:

sudo a2enmod rewrite

It says “Module rewrite already enabled”.

Edit: It also appears in the “loaded modules” section of phpinfo() and I have restarted the apache server several times since it was installed.

Any ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Most likely it is because mod_rewrite is enabled but .htaccess files are disabled via 

    AllowOverride None

    which disables checking .htaccess files (which gives You some performance gains but You have to put Your mod_rewrite code directly in apache configuration files)

    Change for Your virtual host to:

    AllowOverride All
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