Tried everything to get index.php out of the URL and everything returns Not Found error

Question

Things I've confirmed:

Site is on Ubuntu 13.10 server at /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/

1. Uncommented: /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/.htaccess

   RewriteBase /

2. Catalog URL Key = phones

3. Desired URL for this category = http://mysite.com/phones.html

4. Added the following in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf:

   <VirtualHost *:80> ... <Directory /var/www/> AllowOverride All </Directory> </VirtualHost>

5. Restarted apache

6. Cleared Magento Cache

7. Cleared Magento Indexing

8. System -> Configuration -> Web -> Use Web Server Rewrites = Yes

9. System -> Configuration -> Web -> Secure -> Use Secure URLs in Frontend = Yes

Tried adding the AllowOverride All directory code to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/mysite.com.conf as well and the result is the same. I've tried <Directory /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/> and <Directory /var/www/mysite.com/> along with the version I put above. No dice.

The only thing the options above does is remove index.php from the links paths and breaks all the links. Trying to use url http://mysite.com/index.php/phones.html still works, but has been removed from all links.

Answer 1

Have you checked that the Rewrite Mod is on inside of Apache?

Try this:

sudo a2enmod rewrite

sudo service apache restart