enable apache mod rewrites to load clean-urls

Question

In CentOS, a2enmod rewrite results in “command not found” but httpd -M lists rewrite module as listed and shared. I'm trying to enable it so can then have these rewrite rule apply so I can switch back to "clean-urls" on my cms. As it stands my site will only load pages that are /?=page instead of /page.

My changes are in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.

changed NONE to ALL:

<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride ALL
</Directory>

Then added the following after

#
# This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.
#
<Directory "/var/www/html/mycms">
<IfModule rewrite_module>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /mycms
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>
</Directory>

After restart I get :

Starting httpd: httpd: Syntax error on line 354 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: </Directory> without matching <Directory> section
                                                       [FAILED]

Answer 1

First of all, don't use AllowOverride ALL inside <Directory /> section, but inside the sub-directories where you should want to use .htaccess, such as <Directory "/var/www/html/mycms">

Second, the error message tells you have a problem in the line 354. Can you show the text around that line? You have probably at least one mismatch in your httpd.conf file.