mod_rewrite questions

[Dillenger]

Hi I am very new to mod_rewrite, so I thought I'd start out with something simple... what i'm trying to do is turn this:

http://localhost/forum.php

into this:

http://localhost/forum/

what I have in my .htaccess file is this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^forum.php$ forum/ [R=301,L]

This does nothing, i get no errors, I don't even know if it's trying to work or not? Can anyone help?

[bretticus]

Ummm...ask me the same question in an apache forum and I'll answer.

[dewen]

where is that apache forum?

before you find it, try this:

RewriteRule ^forum[/]$ forum.php [L]

let us know if it's working, not so sure

[Dillenger]

nope, still doesn't work if I do that... I know that i have the re_write engine enabled because it says so when i do a phpinfo... so, maybe it just isn't initializing for some reason? I'm on a local machine, not the web... would that have anything to do with it?