htaccess works in localhost but doesn't work in EC2 instance

Question

My htaccess file works on localhost but doesn\'t work when i deploy it to EC2 instance.

I\'m using Macbook and in finder i cannot see the htaccess file, i thought t

Answer 1

Its a three step process

1. Configure apache mod_rewrite,run in terminal. sudo a2enmod rewrite

2. add the following code to /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

DocumentRoot /var/www

Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All


Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all

3.Restart apache

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart