Hello,

Gezzz. . . I thought I followed the steps correctly to enable .htaccess, but it's not enabling (I test it on Google PageSpeed Insights and also by uploading a changed jpg image).

If anyone has any ideas to share, it sure would be appreciated. Here are the steps I took:

1.) My .htaccess file has only the below content and is located in my document root directory with all of my website content:

EXPIRES CACHING

ExpiresActive On

ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 year"

ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 year"

ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 year"

ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 year"

ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"

ExpiresByType text/html "access 1 month"

ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month"

ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 month"

ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month"

ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 year"

ExpiresDefault "access 1 month"

EXPIRES CACHING

2.) I disabled the apache default config file and have my own that handles my website content. In my sites-available config file located at /etc/apache2/sites-available/myvirtualhost.conf I inserted my document root location after AccessFileName and in the tag, and I changed AllowOveride None to Override All below here:

.htaccess file location

AccessFileName /documentRootDirectory/.htaccess

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

AllowOverride All

Order allow,deny

allow from all

3.) And in my apache config file etc/apache2/apache2.conf I made no changes:

AccessFileName .htaccess

Order allow,deny

Deny from all

Satisfy all

Thank you in advance for any suggestions.

–Eric