Enable Apache mod_rewrite on Windows
In httpd.conf file the following line should be uncommented :
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
by removing the # sign before it.
Then comes a section which looks like this :
<Directory "C:/Apache2.2/htdocs">
#
# Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All",
# or any combination of:
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