BackTrack 5 is the most popular Penetration testing among Security Analysts. We have also been using it for a very long time.
Today we were testing one application on our back track 5 Linux. It has Apache installed but with a limited modules. I couldn’t access any page of my application because all URLs were rewritten using mod_rewrite. I performed following troubleshooting and finally installed mod_rewrite module.
mod_rewrite module is actually available under back track 5 Linux, but you have to just activate it.
How to check module if it is already available?
Module path :
ls -l /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_rewrite.so
Module config path :
ls -l /etc/apache2/mods-available/rewrite.load
How to Enable mod_rewrite now?
a2enmod rewrite
Output :
Enabling module rewrite.
Run ‘/etc/init.d/apache2 restart’ to activate new configuration!
Restart Apache
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Test you application, all URLs that is rewritten should work now!