Apache/PHP won’t allow for mod_rewrite in .htaccess files

I have a simple .htaccess file to rewrite www.domain.com/foobar.php to www.domain.com/foobar

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule foobar foobar.php [L]

It is giving me a 404 even though I ran phpinfo(); (which shows the mod_rewrite module), and checked httpd.conf (which uses mod_rewrite several times by default).

Any suggestions?

The most possible reason for this is that you haven’t set ‘AllowOverride’ to at least ‘FileInfo’ at your configuration.

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