Kirby .htaccess on VPS

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I had a similar problem when setting up on my VPS (Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit). Apache rewrite wasn’t working despite mod_rewrite being active and turned on via the .htaccess file. However, the .htacces file was being ingnored. I was getting 404s whenever the URL wouldn’t correspond to an actual file.

I found out that my problem was my default Apache Virtual Hosts file located at /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf. It read:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html

	ErrorDocument 404 /index.html

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Turns out, this config file wasn’t allowing .htaccess to override default/server wide Apache settings, like mod_rewrite being off by default. I ended up adding the appropriate directives to allow .htaccess to override the settings. This is what my default vhost conf ended up looking like.

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html
        <Directory "/var/www/html">
            AllowOverride All
            Require all granted
        </Directory>
	ErrorDocument 404 /index.html

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

This fixed my problem. I don’t know if this is your case as well, but it wouldn’t hurt to check. Hope it helps! Depending on your OS and web stack, the location of these files might vary.