Centos htaccess not being read

Question

I\'m working on a new server and I installed via yum the \"Web Server\" group. Php and mysql work fine but I can\'t get .htaccess to work.

Heres my test .htaccess file:<

Answer 1

On CentOS7, the following should help:

1. Under string AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:replace AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All

2. In /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/00-base.conf check rewrite_module must be:
   LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

3. .htaccess file must be in /var/www/html/

4. Example content .htaccess:
   AuthUserFile /var/www/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile /dev/null AuthName "Please Enter Password" AuthType Basic Require valid-user

5. check and restart Apache:
   httpd -t
   /bin/systemctl restart httpd.service