Are you looking how to enable mod_rewrite in Wamp and Xampp Server? These two are more popular local servers used for website development.

Why Need To Enable mod_rewrite

If you are running a website then it is very important to keep your URL’s SEO-friendly. Your URL’s should be clean and as per search engine recommendation. Keeping page_id, id or something like that in site URL kills your site SEO. Apache module mod_rewrite does a good job for us by keeping our site links optimized for SEO.

The mod_rewrite module uses a rule-based rewriting engine, based on a PCRE regular expression parser, to rewrite requested URLs on the fly.

Note: If your site is running on hosting server then hosting guys enable rewrite module for your site. If it is not enabled, then you should ask hosting guy to enable it for you.

Enable mod_rewrite In Wamp Server

Step 1 – Start Wamp Server.

Step 2 – Click on the green tray icon.

Step 3 – Go to Apache->Apache modules.

Step 4 – Scroll down to rewrite module and check it.

Step 5 – Restart Wamp Server.

Enable mod_rewrite In XAMPP Server

Step 1 – Open XAMPP Control Panel

Step 2 – Open httpd.conf file

Step 3 – Find the below line in httpd.conf file and uncomment the line(remove # from beginning of line)
[php]LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so[/php]

Step 4 – Find all occurences of
[php]AllowOverride None[/php]

and replace with
[php]AllowOverride All[/php]

Step 5 – Restart XAMPP.

That’s it! I hope you understand how to enable mod_rewrite in Wamp and Xampp Server. For any questions and suggestions please leave a comment below.

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