Help needed with mod_rewrite and htaccess for Drupal

Question

I want to enable .htaccess files on my server in order to use "clean_url" functionality in Drupal.

This is what I've done so far:

sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
grep mod_rewrite *

In phpinfo() results I can see: mod_rewrite, so I guess the module is enabled.

I've added a htaccess file with the following content:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on

  RewriteBase /path/to/website

  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

But still it says me my server doesn't provide such functionality. What am I missing ?

Answer 1

Be sure to check the configuration for your server or VirtualHost to ensure AllowOverrides is set to All. If it isn't, nothing in your .htaccess will be read or acted upon.