Enabling Ubuntu Apache Htaccess Files

To make .htaccess files work as expected, you need to edit this file:

/etc/apache2/sites-available/default

Look for a section that looks like this:

<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
</Directory>

To

<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride all
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride all
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
</Directory>

After that restart server

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

check php.ini

and set rewrite_url = on

After that restart Server

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart