.htaccess question/help

[kbc1]

Hi all

I have developed many websites implementing tidy urls' through the use of a htaccess file and mod-rewrites and below is an example of my typical .htaccess file which works every time mapping /home to the home.php page and /about-us to the aboutus.php page

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^home$ home.php
RewriteRule ^about-us$ aboutus.php

However, I have just uploaded this to a new hosting company and the rewrites are not happening and the 'support' desk claim it is because my conditions in the htaccess file are not correct. Yet they do not say how or where!!!!

Can anyone out there see if there is a problem with it?

I don't understand because surely if there was a problem, this htaccess file wouldn't have worked on any other hosts surely?

Thanks for reading

[cahva]

Those rules are correct and should work. Lousy support I say 🙂 I work also on helldesk and try to give a solution to the problem, not just tell something like that..

[kbc1]

Thanks for the prompt response cahva. I knew I wasn't going mental.. 🙂