Thread:Manual talk:Short URL/Apache/Never applies the rules even when AllowOverride is on.

Centos 7, Apache 2.4.6

So, I am trying to short URL like this:

http://mywiki.com/index.php/article to http://mywiki.com/wiki/article

[Edit: I changed this from mywiki.com/article to mywiki.com/wiki/article. Sorry, I originally wrote this after doing command line for about 8 hours straight.]

I have mod_rewrite enabled:

grep -i LoadModule /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf | grep rewrite gives LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

I have a symbolic link called "fts" that points to the root folder of the wiki documents.

I go to my root folder of my wiki documents:

cd /var/www/html/mediawiki-1.24.1 sudo vim .htaccess

and then I create this .htaccess file

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/?wiki(/.*)?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/fts/index.php [L] RewriteRule ^/*$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/fts/index.php [L]
 * 1) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache
 * 1) Enable the rewrite engine
 * 1) Short url for wiki pages
 * 1) Redirect / to Main Page

Then I load up my wiki and nothing is different. So, I go back to to httpd.conf and make sure AllowOverrides All is on:

grep -i AllowOverride /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf gives AllowOverride None AllowOverride All <--- this is the  section one AllowOverride None AllowOverride None

What's up here? I can't figure out why nothing is going on. I'm restarting httpd every time I do an edit to anything.