Enable AllowOverride for Apache – Severalnines Support

Redhat/Centos/Fedora

Edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Find the following information:

#
# AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
# It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
#   Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
#
    AllowOverride None

and change to:

 AllowOverride All

Save and exit your editor.

Restart your web server:

 sudo /etc/init.d/httpd restart

Ubuntu/Debian

Edit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default :

Locate the following section:

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

and change AllowOverride None to:

       AllowOverride All

Save and exit your editor.

Restart your web server:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Comments

2 comments

Jamie Adair

January 10, 2016 02:37
Great! Thanks!
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StevePlant

April 24, 2026 09:58
To enable AllowOverride in Apache, open your Apache config (like httpd.conf or your virtual host file) and set:

<Directory /your/site/path>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

Then restart Apache.

This allows .htaccess files to work. Without it, Apache ignores them for performance reasons
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