RewriteRule in .htaccess not working

Question

I am currently running Apache2 on my local machine, installed with the latest version of Ubuntu.

I am trying to get basic URL rewriting working by using the .htacces

Answer 1

For the benefit of others, I figured out the answer:

In the file "/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default" there was the line:

AllowOverride None

Change this to:

AllowOverride All

Answer 2

You need to remove the contextual path prefix from your pattern when using mod_rewrite in a .htaccess file. In the case of the root directory, the path prefix is just /. So try this:

RewriteRule ^doesnotexist/(.*)$ /page.php?p=$1

Answer 3

If I place a .htaccess into /Library/WebServer/Documents and open "localhost/"; to test it, this works as expected. It just doesn't work in "~/Sites". I have tried this on Mac OS X Mavericks.