I am trying to develop some scripts/sites on a test server that is in my apartment. I am running Red Hat Fedora 3, Apache 2.0.53, php 4.3.11.

I have looked in the phpinfo() and it says that mod_rewrite is enabled in the Loaded Modules section.

I have created an .htaccess file and included the following:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^/test$ /index.php?p=test

This is just for testing purposes. I have been trying to pick apart some .htaccess files on working sites that I have that use mod_rewrite.

All files are located in the root directory of the web server. And there is a file called index.php in there.

Any suggestions on what could be causing the issues of getting a 404 if I try going to /test from the root directory?

Thanks!

remove the / from your rule.

I tried to remove the RewriteBase / and that had no affect. Then I tried removing the /'s in the RewriteRule and that had no affect either.

Is there any command that I may have to run or configurations that I have to check on the server to try make sure that mod_rewrite is actually working?

RewriteRule ^test$ index.php?p=test

Make sure AllowOverride is enabled for your directory. It may be that your .htaccess file is not being read by the server.

Thank you fyrestrtr. That was my problem. Everything works great now. Thanks!