I promise this will be quick and straight. This guide works in both linux and windows apache web server.

Are you ready? alright, lets get the ball rolling.

First locate your apache config file which is named httpd.conf and open it. Then, look for this line

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Uncomment it (remove the # before the LoadModule).

Next set your httpd.conf file to allow overrides from the .htaccess file. Change
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 None

To

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

Then, save your httpd.conf changes and restart your apache server.

That’s all about it. you can now start doing url rewriting.

Heres a sample entry of url rewriting using the .htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index.html$ index.php [NC,L]

It means, when someone access the index.html it forwards to the index.php.
We’ll discuss more about URL rewriting on my next post.

If you have questions please feel free to send them using the comment box.