htaccess issue with SEF URL in Joomla

On your developer box: You enabled SEF in Joomla by doing the following way:

1.rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess
2.Global Configuration -> SEO Settings (set yes to everything) and save it

Refresh your Joomla site
click on your site links - if the short url is working then everything is cool if NOT

open up your Apache config file and

add the following lines to your virtual host setup

        
    AllowOverride      all

save the config file and restart the apache.
DONE.