[apache] 404 Not Found The requested URL was not found on this server

I'm having small troubles and was wondering if someone can help me over the hump. I pulled a copy of a website down from Hostgator and I'm trying to set it up on my local machine using WAMP but, I keep getting an error when trying to access the site. Here is what I have tried..I went to Apaches httpd.conf file and uncommented the # from LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so. Also I have changed the AllowOverride None to All. With that said, Im not sure what else to look for. Please note within my application my httaccess files do not have a (.) in front of them (.htaccess). I'm not sure if that is worth noting or not. Any ideas as to what I need to do to access my site? When I access the application I do see a cached version (white screen), but when I click the link to log in I see the 404 Not Found.

If your .htaccess file is ok and the problem persist try to make the AllowOverride directive enabled in your httpd.conf. If the AllowOverride directive is set to None in your Apache httpd.config file, then .htaccess files are completely ignored. Example of enabled AllowOverride directive in httpd.config:

 <Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    **AllowOverride All**
 </Directory>

Therefor restart your server.

In Ubuntu I did not found httpd.conf, It may not exit longer now. Edit in apache2.conf file working for me.

cd /etc/apache2
sudo gedit apache2.conf

Here in apache2.conf change

<Directory /var/www/>
     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
     AllowOverride None
     Require all granted
</Directory>

to

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
</Directory>  

Just solved this problem! I know the question is quite old, but I just had this same problem and none of the answers above helped to solve it.

Assuming the actual domain name you want to use is specified in your c:\windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts and your configurations in apache\conf\httpd.conf and apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhots.conf are right, your problem might be the same as mine:

In Apache's htdocs directory I had a shortcut linking to the actual project I wanted to see in the browser. It turns out, Apache doesn't understand shortcuts. My solution was to create a proper symlink:

In windows, and within the httdocs directory, I ran this command in the terminal:

mklink /d ple <your project directory with index.html> 

This created a proper symlink in the httpdocs directory. After restarting the Apache service and then reloading the page, I was able to see my website up :)

For saving a file as .htaccess, when using windows, you have to open notepad and then saveas .htaccess as windows does not create files starting with a dot. That should get your .htaccess working and it'll clear up the issue.

By the way, in order to receive specific error messages set Configure::write('debug', 0); to '2' in app/config/core.php for development purposes.

In my case (running the server locally on windows) I needed to clean the cache after changing the httpd.conf file.

\modules\apache\bin> ./htcacheclean.exe -t

In wamp/alias/mySite.conf, be careful to add a slash "/" at the end of the alias' adress :

Replace :

Alias /mySite/ "D:/Work/Web/mySite/www"

By :

Alias /mySite/ "D:/Work/Web/mySite/www/"

Or the index.php is not read correctly.

change this

Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

to

#Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

and restart all services

For me, using OS X Catalina: Changing from AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All is the one that works.

httpd.conf is located on /etc/apache2/httpd.conf.

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