URL Rewriting doesn't seem to work. Apache2

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I would like it so that when the user goes to http://mysite.com/home that it redirects him to http://mysite.com/page.php?id=home. This is what I put in my .htaccess, but it doesn't seem to work.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/(.+)$ page.php?id=$1 [NC,L]

It just sends me to the /home directory, with a nice 404. Help is appreciated. Thanks.

Edit:

I've tried some rewrite I know work, so now I'm certain it's not that my problem. I checked with phpinfo() and yes, mod rewrite is running, I set up apache2 with LAMP, I'm running the latest version of Linux Mint.

score 23 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 24 '17 at 20:29

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Ok well I fixed the problem, this is how I did it.

sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

and then I modified AllowOverride None to AllowOverride all in the /var/www/ part of the file

<Directory /var/www/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride all #This was 'None' before, change it to 'all'
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
</Directory>

edited Jul 24 '17 at 20:29

simhumileco

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answered Mar 27 '13 at 15:17

Alexandre Hitchcox

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Don't forget to restart Apache after this! – AbyxDev Feb 16 '18 at 16:44
Thank you! I had similar problem and Your solution helped me. – Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz Jul 04 '19 at 17:26

m79lkm · Answer 2 · 2013-03-26T21:04:21.947

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This worked for me after removing the forward slash:

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteBase /test 
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ page.php?id=$1 [NC,L]

edited Mar 26 '13 at 21:04

answered Mar 26 '13 at 20:44

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is page.php in your document root? if you are not in the document root directory you will also need to add a RewriteBase statement – m79lkm Mar 26 '13 at 20:59
edited my answer showing you my .htaccess file. Hope this helps! – m79lkm Mar 26 '13 at 21:04

URL Rewriting doesn't seem to work. Apache2

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