I am using Cent OS hosted on VPS. I want to have the feature of "Use URL rewriting of joomla". On enabling this in joomla, it gives a message "Rename .htaccess.txt to .htaccess".
I have renamed the file but on opening the website, browser throws 404 error. The rewrite module is perfectly loaded and for testing redirection, when I add the below in the httpd.conf, the redirection works perfectly. I think, the htaccess file is not being read. I have also added the AllowOverride All in the directory setting of my virtual host but nothing changes.
Code Added to httpd.conf:
RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteRule ^joomla\.html http://www.joomla.org/? [R=301,L]
My question: Where exactly do we need to add AllowOverride All in httpd.conf ? In the directory /var/www/html
or my joomla site document root which is /home/admin/mysite
Also does joomla use .htaccess to enabling url rewriting? What if we dont want to use .htaccess and only use httpd.conf
Thanks, Vineet