Test for .htaccess rewrites failed - apache

Question

I am trying to install SugarCRM Enterprise 7.2 and I keep getting this error during system check:
Test for .htaccess rewrites failed. This usually means you do not have
AllowOverride set up for Sugar directory.
I am running Ubuntu 14.04 with LAMP, and I am trying to install Sugar to the local path
var/www/html/sugar_ent_7
I have already tried putting both
<Directory /var/www/ >
Allowoverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
and
<Directory /var/www/html/sugar_ent_7 >
Allowoverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
to my
/etc/apache2/apache2.conf
file, and no results. I have also tried making a
/etc/apache2/sites-available/sugar_ent_7.conf
file with this code
<Directory /var/www/html/sugar_ent_7>
Order allow,deny
Allow from All
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
and still nothing. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Run the command
a2enmod rewrite;
in your terminal and restart your apache.
Hope this helps.

Answer 2

I met the same problem.
its aim is just to check the following code exists in your .htaccess:
# install/installSystemCheck.php
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase {$basePath}
RewriteRule ^itest.txt$ install_test.txt [N,QSA]
</IfModule>
I don't think SugarCRM is enough to check this setting, so let's just comment it out and make it passed:
#
// if($res != "SUCCESS") {
if(false) {
....

Answer 3

This error can also (misleadingly?) occur when sugar tries to address itself vi IP during the system check. When vhosting is configured it cannot find itself via IP, thus an entry to the hosts file can solve this. In the terminal enter:
vi /etc/hosts
Then add the IP of the system Sugar is running on with the URL you're referring to it, e.g.:
123.234.123.234 subdomain.host.com

Answer 4

# BEGIN SUGARCRM RESTRICTIONS
RedirectMatch 403 (?i).*\.log$
RedirectMatch 403 (?i)/+not_imported_.*\.txt
RedirectMatch 403 (?i)/+(soap|cache|xtemplate|data|examples|include|log4php|metadata|modules)/+.*\.(php|tpl)
RedirectMatch 403 (?i)/+emailmandelivery\.php
RedirectMatch 403 (?i)/+upload
RedirectMatch 403 (?i)/+custom/+blowfish
RedirectMatch 403 (?i)/+cache/+diagnostic
RedirectMatch 403 (?i)/+files\.md5$
# END SUGARCRM RESTRICTIONS
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /dir
RewriteRule ^cache/jsLanguage/(.._..).js$ index.php?entryPoint=jslang&module=app_strings&lang=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^cache/jsLanguage/(\w*)/(.._..).js$ index.php?entryPoint=jslang&module=$1&lang=$2 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>
<FilesMatch "\.(jpg|png|gif|js|css|ico)$">
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header set ETag ""
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000"
Header set Expires "01 Jan 2112 00:00:00 GMT"
</IfModule>
</FilesMatch>
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month"
</IfModule>