.htaccess file not working on linux server - html

Question

I know there are more questions and answers about that but none of them was usefull to me.
I just configured my website on a apache linux server,that I'm managing with cPannel.And I edited my .htaccess file to remove html extensions from my url. But after I uploaded it to File manager , nothing changes.What do I need to do to make it work ?
I've been searching for configuration files to set AllowOverride All but I didn't found anything.And also I don't have etc/apache2/ directory in my file manager, there are other files in etc/ directory.
EDIT: Server info :
Hosting Package:Startup2013
Server Name: wolf
cPanel Version: 11.50.1 (build 3)
Theme: paper_lantern
Apache Version: 2.4.16
PHP Version: 5.6.12
MySQL Version: 5.6.23
Architecture: x86_64
Operating System: linux
Shared IP Address: 185.81.0.40
Path to Sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
Path to Perl: /usr/bin/perl
Perl Version: 5.10.1
Kernel Version: 2.6.32-573.3.1.el6.x86_64
Here is my .htaccess code :
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]

Answer 1

I assume that you're not running an ubuntu server, that's why you don't have /etc/apache2 directory.
Try this:
Edit the httpd.conf file in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and set the AllowOverride All
then: apachectl restart
If this doesn't work please run: cat /etc/*-release and show us the output, so we can know which linux distribution you are running.
EDIT: .htaccess was working fine, OP wanted to remove .html extensions
This is the .htaccess you need in order to remove .html extensions:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
#Removes .html extension
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]+\s.+\.html\sHTTP/.+
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.html $1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]