I use Windows XP as my development platform and this is more of a note from me to me so I don’t have to Google for it next time.

I also use WampServer for Apache, MySQL and PHP and while I’ve only tested on that stack, I believe it to be generic enough.

• Open the Apache httpd.conf file and uncomment the line ‘LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so’ (remove the pound ‘#’ sign from in front of the line).
• If the lines ‘ClearModuleList’ and ‘AddModule mod_rewrite.c’ are in your httpd.conf file, make sure they are not commented out.
• Find the section with Document Root: DocumentRoot “C:/path/to/my/root”
• Modify the option for AllowOverride to look like this:
  <Directory />
      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
      AllowOverride All
  </Directory>
• Restart Apache

Apache mod-rewrite should now be working.

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