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Felipe S.
Asked: 2020-08-02 11:51:23 +0800 CST

.htaccess not working (apache2 | ubuntu 18.04)

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guys the website is working fine, just the file .htaccess that doesn't work, i googled a lot, already enabled a2enmod rewrite and tried a lot of stuff but it didn't work.

obs: i'm using the website example.com as example

this how my /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf is:

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    ServerName example.com
    ServerAlias www.example.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/example.com/public_html

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

and this how my /etc/apache2/apache2.conf is:

<Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all denied
</Directory>

<Directory /usr/share>
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

this is how my .htaccess is:

#DISALOW DIRECTORY LISTING
Options -Indexes

ErrorDocument 400 /.error.php
ErrorDocument 401 /.error.php
ErrorDocument 403 /403.php
ErrorDocument 404 /404.php
ErrorDocument 405 /.error.php
ErrorDocument 408 /.error.php
ErrorDocument 414 /.error.php
ErrorDocument 500 /500.php
ErrorDocument 502 /.error.php
ErrorDocument 504 /.error.php

but it's not disallowing directory listing, and not showing the content in 404.php when page is not found.

apache2 .htaccess

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The current default setup of the AllowOverride directive causes your problem. If you want to allow override of everything possible by a .htaccess file for certain virtual host, you need to change its configuration in a way as this:

    cat /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

    <VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    ServerName example.com
    ServerAlias www.example.com

    DocumentRoot "/var/www/example.com/public_html"

    <Directory "/var/www/example.com/public_html">
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

    Don't forget to reload or restart Apache after change of the .conf files.

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