.htaccess file not working in VPS

I am looking to redirect my site abc[dot]com to www[dot]abc[dot]com forcefully using .htaccess file.
I am using following permissions in my file

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

In my httpd.conf I have made the following change

IndexIgnore .htaccess
<FilesMatch "^.ht">
Order allow,deny
AllowOverride all //added this line
Deny from all
</FilesMatch>

and rebooted it. Still the same.

VPS runs cent os 6 64 bit.

The site was earlier hosted on shared hosting, where .htaccess worked perfectly.

 

I believe you will want to put your AllowOverride in the <Directory> portion of your virtualhost configuration.

For example:

<Directory /var/www/>
    AllowOverride All
    allow from all
</Directory>

Code (markup):

Change the directory above to match where your web files are.

 

This would most likely not be in httpd.conf. You'd want this in where your actual <VirtualHost> definition is for your domain.