How To: Get Mod Rewrite working on Xampp

Want a workable test environment on your Xampp server to use mod rewritten urls for seo purposes? After doing some great research its easy as pie.

Step 1:

Open:

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C:\xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf

Step 2:

Find:

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<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
</Directory>

Change:

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AllowOverride None

To:

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AllowOverride All

Step 3:

Find:

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#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Remove:

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#

Close File & Save

Last but not least close the file and save then go to and run:

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C:\xampp\xampp_restart.exe

That way Xampp will restart apache and allow you to use mod rewrite, pretty simple and very easy to follow.