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How to enable rewrite mode with a Debian server
The rewrite mode allows you to rewrite the URLs of a website to make it easier for the user to read. It also allows users to better understand the purpose of the article to which the link redirects. In particular when this link is posted on a ticket present in a social network, or in the results of a search engine.
Instead of having a number that refers to an article in its URL, we will have the main keywords present in the title of this article.
To activate this mode, here are the lines that must be entered in the SSH administration interface:
You must then open the default file:
Replace each of the following lines:
By this line:
And finally, we restart Apache2:
Instead of having a number that refers to an article in its URL, we will have the main keywords present in the title of this article.
To activate this mode, here are the lines that must be entered in the SSH administration interface:
cat /etc/apache2/mods-available/rewrite.load
LoadModule rewrite_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_rewrite.so
sudo a2enmod rewrite
ls -al /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/rewrite.load
You must then open the default file:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
Replace each of the following lines:
AllowOverride None
By this line:
AllowOverride All
And finally, we restart Apache2:
sudo service apache2 restart
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