Properly configure .htaccess - apache

On localhost I have a file filename.html and an .htaccess in the same folder.
I need to figure out why my .htaccess is not working:
redirect 301 /filename.html http://www.google.com
I am on linux, I have configured the server:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride All
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
sudo service apache2 restart


I found:
RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteRule ^test\.html http://www.google.com/? [R=301,L]
my RewriteEngine is working.

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Sub-domain not working

I'm pretty new to apache, so probably the solution will be obvious to you... I'm running on Debian wheezy
Here are my two file in /etc/apache2/sites-availables:
amelineandraphael
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName amelineandraphael.raphaelnussbaumer.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/amelineandraphael
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/amelineandraphael>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
zoziology
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName zoziologie.raphaelnussbaumer.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/zoziologie
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/zoziologie>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
I have added a symbolic link to /etc/apache2/sites-enables
I've run sudo a2ensite amelineandraphael and sudo a2ensite zoziologie
and restart the apache server.
The sub-domain zoziologie.raphaelnussbaumer.com is working but amelineandraphael.raphaelnussbaumer.com redirect me to the default index.html at /var/www/.
Here are the .htaccess of /var/www/amelineandraphael:
SetEnv PHP_VER 5_4
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Any idea ?

I think I found the solution. Although I'm not sure that's the only part of the solution:
sudo a2dissite 000-default

Unfortunately I can't comment yet as I don't have the rep, so sorry about this being an "answer".
I'm wondering if you have a DNS "A" record for that subdomain? You may have a wildcard DNS record though, which would make this a moot point

ProxyPass not overriding .htaccess mod_rewrite

We have an angular app with an apache server which uses .htaccess to rewrite requests to /index.html using
RewriteRule . /index.html [L]
But for a few paths, we want to use /whatever to route to a different domain. However, adding
ProxyPass /whatever whatever.site.com
to sites-enabled doesn't seem to override the .htaccess.
That full file looks like
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www
ProxyPass /whatever https://whatever.com
ProxyPassReverse /whatever https://whatever.com
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
Any suggestions?
Also, I know for sure that the sites-enabled file above is being used because if I put garbage-text into it the site crashes ;)

Your quoted virtualhost is probably not used for your test request, because proxy would always bypass mod_rewrite rules specified in .htaccess.
Maybe apachectl -S would give you a hint about which vhosts are present / being used. I see this vhost has no ServerName, so unless it's the first or only *:80 it will probably never be used.

.htaccess not working with SSL config

I followed this guide to get a free SSL certificate from StartSSL: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-with-a-free-signed-ssl-certificate-on-a-vps
I followed it step by step but I don't actually understand it fully as I'm a newbie.
I have .htaccess which stopped working after I put the below code into my 000-default.conf file:
<VirtualHost *:443>
SSLEngine on
SSLProtocol all -SSLv2
SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT:!SSLv2:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/ssl.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/private.key
SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/apache2/ssl/sub.class1.server.ca.pem
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/html>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
This is what's in my .htaccess file:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)$ $1.php
ErrorDocument 404 /404error
</IfModule>
^ It's basically to be able to access a page like this domain/page rather than like this: domain/page.php
So as soon as I add the above code from the 000-default.conf file, the rewrite rule works fine. If I add it in, however, I can no longer access files without the .php at the end. My 404 redirect is also not working.
What is it that's causing the problem?

Apache mod rewrite masking

I'm trying to mask/hide a the URL of our VPS, in which we have installed a wordpress blog under a subdirectory (/var/www/vhosts/vps.url.com/httdocs/blog.
We have a domain pointing to this site (vps.url/blog), so writing the domain URL on the browser redirect us to the VPS, but showing the URL vps.url/blog.
I've tried to mask it with apache2 virtual hosts this way:
<VirtualHost *:7080>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName domain.es
ServerAlias www.domain.es
DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/vps.url.com/httpdocs/domain/
DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
This doesn't work as it still showing vps.url.com/domain when we want to show domain.es
Thanks before hand and excuse my bad english.

Virtual Host not recognized

currently I'm trying to set a VHost but somehow it is not working.
I've disabled the vhosts in my machine and I have just one. The page does not load. If I access localhost I get 403 Forbidden
My vhost:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin#myvhost.test
ServerName myvhost.test
DocumentRoot /folder/to/app
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /folder/to/app>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
and if I run
apache2ctl -S
I get
VirtualHost configuration:
wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:
*:80 is a NameVirtualHost
default server myvhost.test (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/myvhost:1)
port 80 namevhost myvhost.test (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/myvhost:1)
Syntax OK
What am I missing here?
Thank you