.htaccess file management

[cobito]

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Procedure

As root:

a2enmod rewrite nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf 

Add within the corresponding VirtualHost section a Directory section:

<Directory "/var/www/html">    Require all granted    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews    AllowOverride All </Directory> 

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart 

Explanation

The.htaccess file is a vital configuration file that applies to each subfolder of our server. In it we can do things like block certain pages, limit the linking of certain material (like images) and many more.

To enable it, the only thing we have to do is activate the rewrite module, so we write in the console as root:

a2enmod rewrite 

Now we must edit with Nano the 000-default.conf file as root:

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

There we must create a Directory section within a VirtualHost section. This is done by copying the following text within a VirtualHost section:

<Directory "/var/www/html">    Require all granted    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews    AllowOverride All </Directory> 

In the Directory field we must put the folder where we want.htaccess to work. If we want to enable.htaccess in some folders and disable it in others, we can use a scheme like the following:

<Directory "/var/www/html">    AllowOverride None </Directory>  <Directory "/var/www/html/wordpress">    Require all granted    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews    AllowOverride All </Directory> 

A functional configuration would look like this:

In this way,.htaccess will work in /var/www/html/wordpress but not in /var/www/html.

Each Directory section is independent and there can be as many as we need within a VirtualHost section.

Finally we restart the Apache server with:

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart 

[sinchan2]

@cobito excelente explicación.

Un saludo

[pablogorean]

@sinchan2 many thanks for the explanation, it is greatly appreciated, recently I tried to edit it myself at [url edited by moderation] and I messed it up, I mean the website broke... because I wanted to make a 301.