Enable mod_rewrite sudo a2enmod rewrite
Edit /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf and add

<Directory "/var/www/html">
 AllowOverride All
</Directory>

Restart apache sudo service apache2 restart

Used to edit /etc/resolv.conf but now.  It’s
/etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base

Same format of
nameserver 8.8.8.8

Then instead of restarting networking use
sudo resolvconf -u