.htaccess: Invalid command 'RewriteEngine', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

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Adham picture Adham · Apr 13, 2012 · Viewed 385.5k times · Source

I have this error when trying to browse php files locally

[Fri Apr 13 19:16:40 2012] [alert] [client 127.0.0.1] C:/AppServ/www/hr-website/.htaccess: Invalid command 'RewriteEngine', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration, referer: http://127.0.0.1/

what is the problem ?

Answer

scibuff picture scibuff · Jul 25, 2012

Under Apache 2+ you can simply do as below (Using Linux Terminal):

sudo a2enmod rewrite && sudo service apache2 restart

or 

sudo a2enmod rewrite && sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

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