How to enable mod_rewrite on ubuntu web server?

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Mod_rewrite enables your links to be user friendly. For example webleit.info/post.php?id=121 is going to be converted to webleit.info/How-to-enable-mod_rewrite-on-ubuntu-web-server/. And that is better for users and search engines. So how do we do that? First we enable mod rewrite:

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Then we have to edit our apache configuration:

sudo pico /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

And we add to the file:

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>

<VirtualHost *:443>
        # The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
        # the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
        # redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
        # specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
        # match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
        # value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
        # However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
        #ServerName www.example.com
        ServerAdmin sonik.blast@gmail.com
        ServerName webleit.info
        ServerAlias www.webleit.info
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html
        # Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
        # error, crit, alert, emerg.
        # It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
        # modules, e.g.
        #LogLevel info ssl:warn
        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
        # For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
        # enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
        # include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
        # following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
        # after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
        #Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf

Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf

SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/webleit.info/fullchain.pem

SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/webleit.info/privkey.pem

<Directory /var/www/html>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted

</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

</IfModule>

And finally the restart of the apache web server:

service apache2 restart