Thanks Joost I had it working before reading you reply minor change to the rule and removing some stuff from conf - Options All seemed to help
cakephp & wordpress are also now rewriting I will be reading up on rewritelog and rewriteloglevel its useful to have friendly tools to assist when things go wierd - S On 11 November 2010 17:11, Joost de Heer <jo...@sanguis.xs4all.nl> wrote: > On 11/11/2010 05:48 PM, Sam Sherlock wrote: > >> I have set up php, mysql and apache 2.2 >> >> but I can't seem to get mod_rewrites to work >> > > would greatly appreciate any ideas to resolve this >> > > RewriteLog and RewriteLogLevel are your friends. > > > > RewriteEngine on > > RewriteRule bob.html alice.html > > If this is in the main config, then this will never get matched, since the > main config will use full pathnames (i.e. /bob.html if the URL is > http://localhost/bob.html). > > Joost > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > >