Here are the steps.

1) Login to your EC2 instance with SSH.

ssh -i “Yourkey.pem” ubuntu@yourpublicip

2) Enable Mode Rewrite, this is just incase if it’s not enabled.

sudo a2enmod rewrite

3) Go to following directory.

cd /etc/apache2/sites-enabled

If you use LS command here you will see following file.

000-default.conf

That’s the file with default apache configuration which are applied to your sites in /var/www/html folder.

4) Open this file for editing.

sudo nano 000-default.conf

5) Add following lines after DocumentRoot /var/www/html line.

<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/html>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>

6) Save the file and restart the apache.

sudo service apache2 restart

that’s it and now your .htaccess file will work and your application will start working.