World of *Nix

by S. M. Ibrahim (lavluda)
জুন 15th, 2007

how to enable mod_rewrite in apache2.2 (debian/ubuntu)

Here i am going to describe how to enable mod_rewrite in apache2.2 -specaily for debian.

In default installion of apache2.2 on debian never enable mod_rewrite default. So you may need to enable .

First install the apache2.2 with this command :
debian user please use “su” before start this process
ubuntu user please use “sudo su” before start this process

apt-get install apache2 (it will install apache 2.2)

now use locate to find if the mod_rewrite.so is availble on your server

updatedb
locate mod_rewrite.so

it will found in “/usr/lib/apache2/modules”

new apache follow some folders to enable and desuable mods.
so now do this:

cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
touch rewrite.load
gedit rewrite.load (you may use any editor to edit this file)

now paste this following line

LoadModule rewrite_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_rewrite.so

Then edit /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default

Find the following

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all

and change it to

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

and finally restart Apache

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

OK, you done :D

don’t forget to comment, if it works or not.

thanks.

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42 Responses to “how to enable mod_rewrite in apache2.2 (debian/ubuntu)”

  1. Hasin Hayder Says:
    জুন 16th, 2007 at 12:08 am

    Whoa!!

    Excellent work Lavlu, much appreciated. This was one of my major problem even few days ago. I just think why didnt you write this article that time.

    :D

    Very good work. Keep it on.

  2. ebzao Says:
    জুন 24th, 2007 at 3:03 pm

    Or more simpler, just do :
    sudo a2enmod rewrite && sudo invoke-rc.d apache2 restart

  3. lavluda Says:
    জুন 24th, 2007 at 3:42 pm

    thanks ebzao. it works :)

  4. World of *Nix - by S. M. Ibrahim (lavluda) » how to move your php development environment to linux Says:
    অগাষ্ট 4th, 2007 at 11:43 pm

    [...] how to enable mod_rewrite in apache2.2 (debian/ubuntu) [...]

  5. Eric Amundson Says:
    অগাষ্ট 19th, 2007 at 4:48 am

    Worked like a charm! Thanks for posting this. :)

  6. Fnord. » Blog Archive » Down again. Sort of. Says:
    অগাষ্ট 29th, 2007 at 9:11 pm

    [...] to this explanation of how to fix [...]

  7. adeng Says:
    সেপ্টেম্বর 17th, 2007 at 10:37 pm

    thank bro…it works…

  8. Javed Says:
    অক্টোবর 25th, 2007 at 9:03 am

    Dear Lavluda

    I want pdf of your how to move your php development environment to linux (Debian/Ubuntu) .

  9. Ivan Says:
    জানুয়ারি 8th, 2008 at 12:38 am

    Thanks!! Simple and elegant solution!

  10. Ajay Says:
    জানুয়ারি 8th, 2008 at 2:41 am

    Excellent!!, finally find perfect and simple solution..

    Thanks!
    Thanks a lot.

  11. varun Says:
    ফেব্রুয়ারি 3rd, 2008 at 10:11 am

    hey, thanks a lot man. Great job, couldn’t have been put simpler

  12. Nik Says:
    এপ্রিল 24th, 2008 at 6:41 pm

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    I don’t think that your blog is dangerous. You can complain about that.

  13. cockhead Says:
    এপ্রিল 28th, 2008 at 10:45 pm

    thank you very much :)

  14. Claudiu Macovschi Says:
    মে 5th, 2008 at 4:28 pm

    Works like a charm! Enabled it on Ubuntu 8.04 Server. Thanks!!

  15. Oz Says:
    মে 17th, 2008 at 4:32 am

    Thnx Thnx :D
    it realy worx :D

  16. saltedlight Says:
    মে 18th, 2008 at 7:36 pm

    /etc/apache2/sites-avalible/000-default is /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default or /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

  17. lavluda Says:
    মে 19th, 2008 at 1:05 pm

    thanks saltedlight, it was typing mistake :(

    fixed

  18. Assaf Says:
    মে 27th, 2008 at 7:48 pm

    Works!!!

  19. fidel Says:
    জুন 3rd, 2008 at 8:30 pm

    Thank you sir. Very succinct! Much appreciated.

  20. Daz Williams Says:
    জুন 3rd, 2008 at 11:33 pm

    Thank you soooo much !!!!

    Worked first time, brilliant!!!!!!

  21. Brian Says:
    জুন 10th, 2008 at 2:27 pm

    Thank you much! Perfect!

  22. Prity Ladsaria roy Says:
    জুন 24th, 2008 at 11:46 pm

    Excellent work, a person knowing very little about installing apache in linux could do it without any difficulty. and yes it worked..!!

    Thanks

  23. RobIII Says:
    জুন 29th, 2008 at 2:17 am

    Jeez.. You have no idea how glad I am i found this. I have been struggling with linux for a few days now. No idea why everything has to be this hard.

  24. binary Says:
    জুন 3rd, 2008 at 7:15 pm

    Are you serious?

    Never heard about a2enmod command?

    #a2enmod rewrite
    #/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

  25. lavluda Says:
    জুন 3rd, 2008 at 9:08 pm

    a2enmod will only work for apache2 default modules. what about if you compiled apache2 ?

  26. Harsh Says:
    জুন 17th, 2008 at 2:40 pm

    Thanku very much yaar, i was searchin for this only thing for last 2 days…..Thanx a lot.

  27. Harsh Says:
    জুন 17th, 2008 at 9:59 pm

    how to activate mod rewrite in CentOS ??
    plzz rply faast i m in danger

  28. Nikolaj Says:
    জুন 20th, 2008 at 8:22 pm

    Very important to say that before you apply rewrite rules you need to say in the site configuration RewriteEngine On

    so the rewrite configuration example looks like this:

    RewriteEngine On

    # allow only for https!
    RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
    RewriteRule ^/svn(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/svn$1 [R,L]

  29. tesi Says:
    জুন 21st, 2008 at 7:19 pm

    nice, it helps me a lot … but …
    when I try to change AllowOverride None to All, I get the external error and I cannot access my page…Any ideas I’d appreciate so much

  30. tesi Says:
    জুন 21st, 2008 at 7:21 pm

    sorry…500 Internal error :(

  31. tesi Says:
    জুন 22nd, 2008 at 1:29 pm

    I solved this by setting virtual host :) nice

  32. Carlos Says:
    জুন 27th, 2008 at 8:41 pm

    Excelent! it really works.

    I tried because webmedia explorer requires it: http://www.webmediaexplorer.com

  33. Leo Says:
    অগাষ্ট 12th, 2008 at 4:07 am

    Very well done! it worked for me, thanks.

  34. noname Says:
    অগাষ্ট 26th, 2008 at 4:29 pm

    tanks a lot !! ;)

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  36. Matt Wheeler Says:
    অগাষ্ট 31st, 2008 at 4:29 am

    This could be achieved more easily by symlinking from /etc/apache2/mods-available/rewrite.load (this will also work with any of the other modules that have a file in mods-available).
    :-)

  37. sas Says:
    সেপ্টেম্বর 22nd, 2008 at 7:47 pm

    this was the only tutorial that made my htaccess files work. thank you very much. good order and good explanation and descriptions.
    thanks…

  38. Robert Says:
    অক্টোবর 19th, 2008 at 6:35 pm

    I saw many tutorial but yours works perfectly :) Good work Lavlu!

  39. Ryan Orser’s Blog » Blog Archive » How to get WP-SuperCache Working Says:
    অক্টোবর 27th, 2008 at 1:06 pm

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  40. cigraphics Says:
    অক্টোবর 29th, 2008 at 1:45 am

    Thanks a lot i’ve forgot about the AllowOverride All that was my problem

  41. Akerman Says:
    নভেম্বর 10th, 2008 at 5:19 pm

    Most tutorials in regards of ‘mod_rewrite’ out there today, even at Apache site are often referring to older versions, so from that perspective it’s nice with a fresh tutorial.

    However if you are reading this then you should be aware of the following:

    The ‘Enabled’ directory is to contain Links into ‘Available’ directory. Doing anything else is stepping away from the intended server structure. So copy the ‘rewrite.load’ as a link from the ‘Available’ directory, into the ‘Enabled’ directory. No need to edit anything!

    The ‘000-default’ is your Apache2 server default file changes here are very global. The edit above actually opens up for the use of ex:’.htaccess’ files in the whole site.
    Normally you leave this file alone and make the appropriate changes at a lower level. Like in the ‘apache2.conf’ which is the normal place for server wide alterations.
    Just a tip…

  42. Rebecca Clayton Says:
    নভেম্বর 12th, 2008 at 8:28 pm

    Thanks!

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