htaccess not working on localhost with XAMPP

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i m using XAMPP but i m not able to use  htaccess file at local host  i m trying so many times   Online working good  but local host showing  The requested URL was not found on this server    My root folder is real  localhost acre real property available php localhost acre real properties    lt IfModule mod rewrite c gt   RewriteEngine On  RewriteBase  acre real   RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f  RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d  RewriteRule  properties   property available php  1  NC QSA   lt  IfModule gt    Please

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For windows user  make sure to closely look at this section   RewriteRule  properties   property available php  1  NC QSA    As said in Apache documentation       The mod rewrite module uses a rule-based rewriting engine  based on a   PCRE regular-expression parser  to rewrite requested URLs on the fly    So  properties  means Apache will only look for URL that has exact match with properties   You might want to try this code   RewriteRule properties  property available php  1  NC QSA    So Apache will see the URL that has properties and rewrite it to  property available php

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I had a similar problem  But the problem was in the file name   htaccess   because the Windows doesn t let the file s name begin with a      the solution was rename the file with a CMD command   rename c  xampp htdocs htaccess txt  htaccess

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Without seeing your system it s hard to tell what s wrong but try the following  comment answer if these didn t work WITH log error messages    STOP your Apache server instance  Ensure it s not running    1  move apache server install to a folder that has no long file names and spaces 2  check httpd conf in install conf folder and look for AccessFileName  If it s  htaccess change it to a file name windows accepts  e g  conf htaccess  3  double-check that your htaccess file gets read  add some uninterpretable garbage to it and start server  you should get an Error 500  If you don t  file is not getting read  re-visit httpd conf file  if that looks OK  check if this is the only file which defines htaccess and it s location and it does at one place -within the file- only  also check if both httpd conf and htaccess files are accessible  not encrypted  file access rights are not limited  drive path available -and no long folder path and file names- STOP Apache again  then go on  4  If you have IIS too on your system  stop it  uninstall it too if you can  from services msc 5  Add the following to the top of your valid htaccess file      RewriteEngine On     RewriteLog   path logs rewrite log   make sure path is there      RewriteLogLevel 9 6  Empty your  apache  logs folder  if you use another folder  then that one    7  Check the following entries are set and correct     Action application x-httpd-php  c  your-php5-path php-cgi exe     LoadModule php5 module  c  your-php5-path php5apache2 dll     LoadModule rewrite module modules mod rewrite so    Avoid long path names and spaces in folder names for phpX install too  8  START apache server  You can do all the steps above or go one-by-one  your call  But at the end of the day make sure you tried everything above  If system still blows up and you can t fix it  copy amp paste error message s  from log folder for further assistance

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Try   lt IfModule mod rewrite so gt               lt  IfModule gt    instead of  lt IfModule mod rewrite c gt

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I ve setup xampp for my localhost as well  I ve not done anything with the files created by xampp during or after setup   But in the   htaccess  file  make sure you ve set it to something like this  Works for me  and this should not make any difference for you   RewriteEngine On RewriteRule  filename    filename html   Change  html to whatever format you re using   Make sure your install is clean  and just make the  htaccess file  Also remember to put one  htaccess file for each directory  don t really know if you can use ONE file for all folders  but to be safe  just do this and it will always work

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In conf extra httpd-vhosts conf  add the line AllowOverride All for all the websites that you are having problem with   lt VirtualHost example site 80 gt        rest of the stuff      lt Directory  c  Projects example site  gt          Require all granted          AllowOverride All  lt -----This line is required      lt  Directory gt   lt  VirtualHost gt

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for xampp vm on MacOS capitan  high sierra  MacOS Mojave  10 12    you can follow these  1  mount  opt lampp 2  explore the folder 3  open terminal from the folder 4  cd to  htdocs  gt yourapp  ex  techaz co  5  vim  htaccess 6  paste your  htaccess content  that is suggested on options-permalink php

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Just had a similar issue  Resolved it by checking in httpd conf          AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in  htaccess files         It can be  All    None   or any combination of the keywords           Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit             AllowOverride All    lt --- make sure this is not set to  None    It is worth bearing in mind I tried  from Mark s answer  the  put garbage in the  htaccess  which did give a server error - but even though it was being read  it wasn t being acted on due to no overrides allowed

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Edit the  htaccess file  so the first line reads  Test    Test  Set the default handler DirectoryIndex index php index html index htm

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