From what you write it sounds like Apache isn’t reading/following the .htaccess at all. This can be the case if the AllowOverride setting is not active for that directory. (See this thread on StackOverflow for more information.)
<Directory /var/www/>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
Setting this (AllowOverride None -> AllowOverride All) and restarting Apache should solve the problem.
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