Most web developers use a “third party” web server which comes in a package such as WAMP or XAMPP resulting to miss configuration of the web server to perform several capabilities.  One of which is allowing htaccess configuration to take over the webserver’s main configuration.  Even apache itself usage of htaccess is disabled by default and configuring the server is needed to allow htaccess on your server.  Below is how to allow htaccess on your web server:

Open your Apache httpd.conf Configuration File and “uncomment” the line

You can “uncomment” it by removing the number sign “#” resulting to

After removing the number sign you need to change the AllowOverride directive, the default configuration is:

It should be changed to :

You also need to change the line

to

this can be found where you set your DocumentRoot where in my case is set to (</Directory “D:/HTDOCS”>).  After configuring Apache you need to restart the server for the changes to take effect.