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

There are three steps

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

2. Add this code in this file after closing VirtualHost tag /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

   DocumentRoot /var/www
   Options FollowSymLinks
   AllowOverride All
   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
   AllowOverride All
   Order allow,deny
   allow from all
   

3. Restart apache server by command

   sudo service apache2 restart