Getting mod rewrite to work

[leatherback]

Hi All,

On my local server I cannot get modrewrite to work. I have a simple script which I tested on my live server, and the rules there work. So the .htacces file is correct.

What are the apache settings I need to allow URL rewriting? I have set:

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

AddModule mod_rewrite.c

DocumentRoot "F:/webroot/"

<Directory "F:/webroot/">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from localhost 127.0.0.1
</Directory>

What have I forgotten to initialize?

The rewrite rule is simple, and works live:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^{pics/(.)/(.)/$} pics.php?$1=$2

It just loads the file pics.php (The default action for /pics) and PhPinfo shows:
REQUEST_URI /work/bio-vision/website/portfolio/pics/keys/Human/

[jabba_29]

Are you getting any errors in the error log - have you set permissions to allow override in that directory so that .htaccess can be used. You may also need to check the options settings for FollowSymLinks - I have had a bit of an issue with this on windows.