How To Enable mod_rewrite In LAMP- Ubuntu Linux

• give permissions to the /var/www/ directory

           sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/

•  Install the Apache module mod_rewrite

           a2enmod rewrite

• Chnage the directory and keep the back up of the file “000-default”

          cd /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/
         sudo cp  000-default 000-default1

• Edit the file 000-default

          sudo vi 000-default
          Look for the below given code
          Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
          AllowOverride none
          Order allow,deny
          allow from all
          Modify “AllowOverride none” to “AllowOverride All”

• Restart Apache

         sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart