Need help with apache2 configs/webmin/and virtualmin service

Here's what i'm running. installed webmin/virtualmin/usermin... using apache2. the normal default on webmin. i've created a virtual server with virtualmin.

the services are all good. everything works. no issues. except when i put my website up

my issue: the server doesn't see/read my .htaccess file.

with DEFAULT configs and all, here is what i changed: enabled rewrite apache mod in apache2 config. i also went into the virtual server settings and set AllowOverride None to All. it SHOULD be working now. however, its not.

here is my virtual server config:

SuexecUserGroup "#1007" "#1009" ServerName example.org ServerAlias www.example.org ServerAlias webmail.example.org ServerAlias admin.example.org DocumentRoot /home/example/public_html ErrorLog /var/log/virtualmin/example.org_error_log CustomLog /var/log/virtualmin/example.org_access_log combined ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/example/cgi-bin/ DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.php4 index.php5 Options -Indexes +IncludesNOEXEC +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch +ExecCGI allow from all AllowOverride All Options=ExecCGI,Includes,IncludesNOEXEC,Indexes,MultiViews,SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Require all granted AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddHandler fcgid-script .php AddHandler fcgid-script .php5 FCGIWrapper /home/example/fcgi-bin/php5.fcgi .php FCGIWrapper /home/example/fcgi-bin/php5.fcgi .php5 allow from all AllowOverride All Options=ExecCGI,Includes,IncludesNOEXEC,Indexes,MultiViews,SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Require all granted RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =webmail.example.org RewriteRule ^(.) https://example.org:20000/ [R] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =admin.example.org RewriteRule ^(.) https://example.org:10000/ [R] RemoveHandler .php RemoveHandler .php5 php_admin_value engine Off FcgidMaxRequestLen 1073741824 DAV on AuthType Basic AuthName example.org AuthUserFile /home/example/etc/git.basic.passwd Require valid-user Satisfy All RedirectMatch ^/git$ http://example.org/git/gitweb.cgi RedirectMatch ^/git/$ http://example.org/git/gitweb.cgi RewriteEngine off AddHandler cgi-script .cgi Require user admin

and my .htaccess file inside my website directory

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]

(all this does is rewrite all http requests to https to use SSL.)