Re: RewriteEngine not working in (my) apache2

[Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com>]

Kaj Wiik wrote:
> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>   
> > Have you tried adding "RewriteBase /" in there?
> >     
> Thanks for suggestion, I tried but still nothing to the log and no
> redirection.
>
> On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 17:20 -0700, Jeff D wrote:
>   
> > this should do it:
> > RewriteEngine on
> > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/test/foo\.html  [NC]
> > RewriteRule foo(.*) /test/foo.html  [R,L]
> >     
>
> This suggestion changed the behaviour, now I get an error message:
> [Fri Sep 29 14:09:32 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not
> exist: /var/www/test.html/foop
>
> instead of the previous:
>
> [Fri Sep 29 14:09:10 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not
> exist: /var/www/foop
>
> So some rewriting is happening, but why nothing is written in the log
> even if I have
> RewriteLogLevel 9
> RewriteLog /tmp/rewrite.log
> ??
>
> I also checked that there are no other Rewrite rules/directives in the
> config files..
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kaj
>
>   
here is how I have mine set up:

in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/00-default  after <VirtualHost *> I have :

RewriteEngine on
RewriteLogLevel 9
RewriteLog /tmp/rewrite
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/test/foo\.html  [NC]
RewriteRule foo(.*) /test/foo.html  [R,L]

in /var/www/ , there is no foo files at all
in /var/www/test/  i have foo.html

Id check to make sure your rewite rules are in your virtualhost 
directive though.