.htaccess not working on localhost with XAMPP

Question

i m using XAMPP but i m not able to use .htaccess file at local host. i m trying so many times.. Online working good. but local host showing [The requested URL was not found on this server]

My root folder is real

localhost/acre/real/property_available.php
localhost/acre/real/properties


<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteBase /acre/real/
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteRule ^properties$ /property_available.php/$1 [NC,QSA]
</IfModule>

Please

Answer 1

Just had a similar issue

Resolved it by checking in httpd.conf

     # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.      # It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:      #   Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit      #      AllowOverride All   <--- make sure this is not set to "None" 

It is worth bearing in mind I tried (from Mark's answer) the "put garbage in the .htaccess" which did give a server error - but even though it was being read, it wasn't being acted on due to no overrides allowed.

Answer 2

In conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf, add the line AllowOverride All for all the websites that you are having problem with

<VirtualHost example.site:80>
    # rest of the stuff
    <Directory "c:\Projects\example.site">
        Require all granted
         AllowOverride All <-----This line is required
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>