Rewrite not taking effect in .htaccess

[eluser]thisischris[/eluser]
Hi there.

I have just changed to ubuntu from a windows localhost. Everything seems to be working except the url rewriting. I am unable to access the 'pages' without adding index.php/ beforehand.

Upon installation of another framework it mentioned Mod_rewrite was not enabled or something.

Can anybody offer any assistance? Thank you

[eluser]vitoco[/eluser]
You must enable mod_rewrite, in a terminal use :

Code:

sudo a2enmod rewrite

After that restart apache :

Code:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

FYI : a2enmod = apache 2 enable module

Saludos