.htaccess Is Not working in Linux(Debian) Apache2 - apache

Question

I am using apache2 (my dummy server) which is already install with my Debian. Every thing goes fine, but now the problem with my .htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
It's not working
I think its because of apache2 version which am I using & maybe problems with my code or something I have to config on my server
I want to redirect my url to main index page if its a wrong entry or unavailable

Answer 1

After spending a whole day, I got my answer
In Folder
apache2>>sites-available>> There is file called default
In default we have to change it
From:
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
TO:
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
Its working. It's enabled use of .htaccess files.

Answer 2

I'd like to add that /etc/apache2/mods-available/rewrite.load needs to be enabled:
a2enmod rewrite
On Debian I thought it was enabled by default, but mine wasn't.

Answer 3

This code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?url=$1 [QSA,R]
will redirect http://example.com/test.php to http://example.com/index.php?url=test.php if the file doesn't exist. The only difference between my code here and your one is I have [R] instead of [QSA,L] If it still doesn't work for you and you have the htaccess file in the root folder then, I don't think it's a htaccess file problem

Answer 4

Important to note that AllowOverride only works in <Directory> directives and will be ignored if placed inside <Location ...> section; this was my issue and it took me for a nice ride.
Only available in sections AllowOverrideList is valid only
in sections specified without regular expressions, not in
, or sections.
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#allowoverride