How to activate mod_rewrite?

Question

I know that this question have been asked several times. But I can\'t get it to work.

I installed Apache2 in my Ubuntu server I can also confirm that mod_rewrite is

Answer 1

In your question, you have mentioned,

Also, my apache2.conf file doesn't work. I tried to write som nonsense. And it is still gives me the normal result instead of http 500 error

So, before posting more stuff to try-out with .conf files,

run strace -o somefilename.txt sudo /etc/init.d/apache restart

strace - trace system calls and signals : strace(1) - Linux man page.

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The -o somefilename.txt part puts the output of strace into somefilename.txt. Open the text file and search for httpd.conf. You should be able to see code similar to:

stat("/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=35894, ...})=0
open("/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3

The path to httpd.conf will be replaced by the path to your default httpd.conf

If you find one, then open that httpd.conf and make changes there. Else, a httpd.conf is not getting loaded.

If later is the case, try:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache -f  /path/to/httpd.conf start

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Also, check for NameVirtualHost *:80 and make sure it is not commented.