Using .htaccess in XAMPP on Windows

I googled quiet some time on using custom links for your site on windows using XAMPP. All of them suggested me to uncomment line for ‘mod_rewrite’, set AllowOverride to All. I tried this but it still faced same issue, a 404 error page.

Then I came to one more solution that I tried an bingooo!, it worked like charm. Just to keep note and save some time of other developers , I am putting all steps here . First 2, 3 steps are commonly suggested.

• Open your apache conf file xhttpd.confx in any editor of your choice.

• Search xmod_rewrite.sox, you may encounter line as follows x
  #LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

• Remove the comment x#x.

• Find xAccessFileNamex , you may see a line like x
  xAccessFileName ht.aclx change it to xAccessFileName htaccess.txtx.

• Create xhtaccess.txtx in sites root directory.

• Restart apache

Thats it, you are done!