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

to
AllowOverride All


save the file and then
# service httpd restart


See also
ModAccess
ModAuth

REFERRERS
Apache
ModRewrite


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