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@@ -154,12 +154,15 @@ If you still run into a permissions error, you may need to increase the permissi
 
 The document root for the app should be set to the public directory. In a standard Apache virtualhost setup, that might look something like this on a standard linux LAMP stack:
 
-	<VirtualHost *:80>
-    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/public
-    ServerName www.example.org
+<VirtualHost *:80>
+	<Directory /var/www/html/public>
+		AllowOverride All
+	</Directory>
+	DocumentRoot /var/www/html/public
+    	ServerName www.example.org
 
-    # Other directives here
-	</VirtualHost>
+    	# Other directives here
+</VirtualHost>
 
 An OS X virtualhost setup could look more like: