In order to use mod_rewrite you can type the following command in the terminal:
sudo a2enmod rewrite
Restart apache2 after
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
or
sudo service apache2 restart
or as per new unified System Control Way
sudo systemctl restart apache2
Then, if you'd like, you can use the following .htaccess file.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
The above .htaccess file (if placed in your DocumentRoot) will redirect all traffic to an index.php file in the DocumentRoot unless the file exists.
So, let's say you have the following directory structure and httpdocs is the DocumentRoot
httpdocs/
.htaccess
index.php
images/
hello.png
js/
jquery.js
css/
style.css
includes/
app/
app.php
Any file that exists in httpdocs will be served to the requester using the .htaccess shown above, however, everything else will be redirected to httpdocs/index.php. Your application files in includes/app will not be accessible.
The access to your Apache server is forbidden from addresses other than 127.0.0.1 in httpd.conf (Apache's config file) :
<Directory "c:/wamp/www/">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Directory>
The same goes for your PHPMyAdmin access, the config file is phpmyadmin.conf :
<Directory "c:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.4.5/">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Directory>
You can set them to allow connections from all IP addresses like follows :
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Best Answer
Click on the WAMP server icon and from the menu under Config Files select
httpd.conf. A long text file will open up in notepad. In this file scroll down to the line that readsPort 80and change this to readPort 8080, Save the file and close notepad. Once again click on the wamp server icon and select restart all services. One more change needs to be made before we are done. In Windows Explorer find the location where WAMP server was installed which is by DefaultC:\Wamp.Update : On a newer version of WAMP, click the WAMP server icon > Apache >
httpd.conf, then change the lineListen 80toListen 8080or any port you want.Update： On 3.1.6 version of WAMP ， right click on the wamp server icon in the taskbar ，select "tools"-> "Port used by Apache:80" -> "use a port other than 80", an input box will pop up , input a new port in it，click confirm button , then restart wamp .