for some reason the htaccess in my new website is ignored..

Thank you

For some reason, you're under the misunderstanding that you've provided any where near enough details for anyone to help.

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Either provide enough details for people to help, or sit back and listen to the crickets chirp.
Security thru obscurity is a myth - and really really annoying.

Sorry

virtual host:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  # Admin email, Server Name (domain name), and any aliases
  AllowOverride All
  ServerAdmin me@mysite.com
  ServerName  www.mysite.com
  ServerAlias mysite.com

  # Index file and Document Root (where the public files are located)
  DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
  DocumentRoot /home/user/public/mysite.com/public

   <Directory />
            Options FollowSymLinks
            AllowOverride All
    </Directory>



  # Log file locations
  LogLevel warn
  ErrorLog  /home/user/public/mysite.com/log/error.log
  CustomLog /home/user/public/mysite.com/log/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

when using this command: sudo a2dissite
I'm getting:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_PAPER = "he_IL.UTF-8",
LC_ADDRESS = "he_IL.UTF-8",
LC_MONETARY = "he_IL.UTF-8",
LC_NUMERIC = "he_IL.UTF-8",
LC_TELEPHONE = "he_IL.UTF-8",
LC_IDENTIFICATION = "he_IL.UTF-8",
LC_MEASUREMENT = "he_IL.UTF-8",
LC_TIME = "he_IL.UTF-8",
LC_NAME = "he_IL.UTF-8",
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").


Thank you

Changed it to:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  # Admin email, Server Name (domain name), and any aliases
  ServerAdmin me@mysite.com
  ServerName  www.mysite.com
  ServerAlias mysite.com

   <Directory />
            Options FollowSymLinks
            AllowOverride None
    </Directory>


  # Index file and Document Root (where the public files are located)
  DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
  DocumentRoot /home/user/public/mysite.com/public

   <Directory /home/user/public/mysite.com/public>
            AllowOverride All
    </Directory>



  # Log file locations
  LogLevel warn
  ErrorLog  /home/user/public/mysite.com/log/error.log
  CustomLog /home/user/public/mysite.com/log/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>