Free Software Server Environment: AllowOveride

AllowOveride

To allow local .htaccess files to overide your global default settings defined in httpd.conf you need to change the "AllowOveride" setting
of the default /var/www/html website

# vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

and find the section beginning

<Directory "/var/www/html">

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

change

AllowOverride None

AllowOverride All

Order allow,deny
Allow from all

</Directory>

save the file and then

# service httpd restart

Free Software Server Environment : AllowOveride

AllowOveride