---
title: htaccess
date: 2012-01-05
keywords: [apache, web, htaccess]
---

This drove me nuts for about an hour, until I found [this stackoverflow
post][1].

getting htaccess to work
========================

Having problems getting `.htaccess` to work? I had the same issue and
hopefully this will help you.

`vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/example` or whatever your
sites-available file is called.

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

Look for the "`AllowOverride`" line and change it from *None* to *All*:

```
<Directory /var/www/example/>
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
  AllowOverride all
  Order allow,deny
  allow from all
</Directory>
```
    
and then restarting apache with

```
sudo service apache2 restart
```

Now apache should read your `.htaccess` file in the *example* directory.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2837170/the-htaccess-file-wont-work-on-my-apache-server