Changes to .htaccess not updating the file (old rules still take effect)

Did you check the Apache capability for it? If Not yet, open the httpd.conf of your Apache directory and remove the ‘#’ that’s prepended to the line ‘LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so’ plus change the term ‘AllowOverride None’ to ‘AllowOverride All’. That did the trick for me after a many hours of searching…