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mod_rewrite tutorial: If you want to build 'fantasy' URL, You need helping from a apache's module that we called mod_rewrite. This is realy famous modules in Apache. so, I think it always ready in common installation package.

Try to look from phpinfo(). Find installed modules in your package. This is example modules from my local server:

core mod_win32 mpm_winnt http_core mod_so mod_access 
mod_actions mod_alias mod_asis mod_auth mod_autoindex 
mod_cgi mod_dir mod_env mod_imap mod_include mod_isapi 
mod_log_config mod_mime mod_negotiation mod_rewrite 
mod_setenvif mod_userdir sapi_apache2 

if you can't see it. You can activate that module. Follow this step:

#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so