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

When you using the apache2 server

Go to the following directory.

cd /etc/apache2/sites-available

If you use LS command here you will see the following file.

000-default.conf

That's the file with default apache configuration which are applied to your sites in /var/www/html folder.

Open this file for editing.

sudo nano 000-default.conf

Add following lines after DocumentRoot /var/www/html line.

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

Save the file and restart the apache.

sudo service apache2 restart

that's it and now your .htaccess file will work