.htaccess not working (apache2 | ubuntu 18.04)

Question

guys the website is working fine, just the file .htaccess that doesn't work, i googled a lot, already enabled a2enmod rewrite and tried a lot of stuff but it didn't work.

obs: i'm using the website example.com as example

this how my /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf is:

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    ServerName example.com
    ServerAlias www.example.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/example.com/public_html

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

and this how my /etc/apache2/apache2.conf is:

<Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all denied
</Directory>

<Directory /usr/share>
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

this is how my .htaccess is:

#DISALOW DIRECTORY LISTING
Options -Indexes

ErrorDocument 400 /.error.php
ErrorDocument 401 /.error.php
ErrorDocument 403 /403.php
ErrorDocument 404 /404.php
ErrorDocument 405 /.error.php
ErrorDocument 408 /.error.php
ErrorDocument 414 /.error.php
ErrorDocument 500 /500.php
ErrorDocument 502 /.error.php
ErrorDocument 504 /.error.php

but it's not disallowing directory listing, and not showing the content in 404.php when page is not found.

Please paste .htaccess as well and indicate which command is not working. — turbulence, Aug 01 '20 at 19:53
_Aside:_ The `AllowOverride All` directive in the `` container _should_ be set to `None`. This potentially opens up your whole server to be parsed for `.htaccess` (except for the two exceptions that follow). — MrWhite, Aug 01 '20 at 21:24

pa4080 · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-01T20:09:40.063

7

The current default setup of the AllowOverride directive causes your problem. If you want to allow override of everything possible by a .htaccess file for certain virtual host, you need to change its configuration in a way as this:

cat /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    ServerName example.com
    ServerAlias www.example.com

    DocumentRoot "/var/www/example.com/public_html"

    <Directory "/var/www/example.com/public_html">
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

Don't forget to reload or restart Apache after change of the .conf files.

edited Aug 01 '20 at 20:09

answered Aug 01 '20 at 19:59

pa4080

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i don't know if i'm doing it right, i edited this file ```/etc/apache2/apache2.conf``` to your code, but when i try restart apache2 it gives me an error. – Felipe S. Aug 01 '20 at 20:09
now it worked thank you! – Felipe S. Aug 01 '20 at 20:15
You are welcome, @FelipeS. – pa4080 Aug 01 '20 at 20:16
Hi, @FelipeS., did you restart Apache? Sometimes browser's cache flushing is also required. – pa4080 Aug 02 '20 at 20:07

.htaccess not working (apache2 | ubuntu 18.04)

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