Making the links pretty using Apache Rewrite

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Use Apache Rewrite and htaccess to get Apache rewrite to work and make your urls pretty on Ubuntu. Lets assume that your website root directory is located in /var/www/headstation. Say you want to make this url:

wiki.php?tag=home

look like:

/wiki/home

In the website root doc directory, add a .htaccess file with following content:

RewriteEngine On  
RewriteBase /headstation/website/
RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*)/?$ wiki.php?tag=$1 [NC,L]

Check the /etc/apache2/sites-available/ and ensure that the following lines are in the site-available conf file for the site:


  Options FollowSymLinks
  AllowOverride None

Make sure that Multiviews is not in the lines above. Thats it!