Cant not get .htaccess to work ?

Hello.

I have spent the whole day on this a could really use some help please.

I am trying to get my laravel site to run on a Digital Ocean Ubuntu 14.4 server running php 5.5.9 and apache2.

I have looked at the docs and various tutorials but i have had no luck.

When i go to mysite/phpinfo.php I can see in loaded modules "mod_rewrite"

My server file structure is /var/www/html The index and .htaccess files are in the default place /var/www/html/public

my .htaccess was the default one supplied:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
            Options -MultiViews
        </IfModule>

        RewriteEngine On

        # Redirect Trailing Slashes...
        RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

        # Handle Front Controller...
     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

But that did not work so I tried the other one that is in the Laravel docs and that didnt work either:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        Options +FollowSymLinks
        RewriteEngine On

        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

In my Digital Ocean server I have set up another user some instead of root it is rickyspires.

This is my set up there.

$ sudo a2enmod rewrite $ sudo service apache2 restart $ sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

<VirtualHost *>
    ServerAdmin rickyspires@localhost
    
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/
    <Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/html/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

• When I go to my domain it shows a list of all the files in /var/www/html/

Thanks Ricky