Re: RewriteEngine not working in (my) apache2

[Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com>]

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 04:29:04PM +0300, Kaj Wiik wrote:
>   
> > Hi!
> >
> > This (testing) redirection does not seem to be working (in
> > apache2.conf):
> >
> >     RewriteEngine on
> >     RewriteLogLevel 9
> >     RewriteLog /tmp/rewrite.log
> >     RewriteRule ^/foo(.*) /test/foo.html 
> >
> > (so e.g. if page /foop is requested, /test/foo.html should be returned)
> >
> > I installed apache2 (sarge), sudo a2enmod rewrite, sudo apache2ctl
> > graceful, nothing gets printed in rewrite.log (it is created though).
> >
> > error.log:
> > [Thu Sep 28 16:19:40 2006] [error] [client xxxxxxxx] File does not
> > exist: /var/www/foop
> >
> > Any clues?
> >
> >     
>
> Have you tried adding "RewriteBase /" in there?
>
> Regards,
>
> -Roberto
>   
this should do it:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/test/foo\.html  [NC]
RewriteRule foo(.*) /test/foo.html  [R,L]