.htaccess for cakephp

The correct .htaccess is the default:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteRule    ^$    webroot/    [L]
  RewriteRule    (.*) webroot/$1    [L]
</IfModule>

You have to add this in "/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default":

<Directory /var/www>
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
  AllowOverride All
  Order allow,deny
  allow from all
</Directory>

if section already exists change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All

The answer is that there are 3 different .htaccess files:

/var/www/app/webroot/.htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

/var/www/app/.htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule    ^$    webroot/    [L]
    RewriteRule    (.*) webroot/$1    [L]
</IfModule>

/var/www/.htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/ [L]
    RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

It's been my fault, everything is listed on the CakePHP site. Thanks to everyone!