Apache2 .htaccess RewriteEngine error

To enable .htaccess files on your server, edit “/etc/apache2/sites-available/default” file, change AllowOverride to All

NameVirtualHost *
<VirtualHost *>
        ServerAdmin admin@site.com

        DocumentRoot /var/www/
        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
        </Directory>
        <Directory /var/www/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
                #RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/
        </Directory>

Then restart apache by doing “/etc/init.d/apache2 restart to restart apache”

Try to see if everything is working fine, if not, check your apache logs in /var/log/apache2, if you have the following error “/var/www/.htaccess: Invalid command ‘RewriteEngine’, perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration”

simply do “sudo a2enmod rewrite” and restart apache again and all should work fine!