.htaccess not working

[themoose]

I have this basic .htaccess file to test if it was working:

Options +FollowSymLinks
Options +Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^alice.html$ bob.html

And yeah, it doesn't work. bob.html exits, but when I load alice.html it's a 404.

mod_rewrite Module is loaded (LoadModule) in httpd.conf

So I'm not really sure what could be wrong

edit: using webmin as control panel

 

[Dynash]

I don't get what you're planning on doing like that, but try this site as a check, I've used it before : http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccess2.php

 

[themoose]

I was testing if it works.. I'm fairly certain the .htaccess code itself isn't what's wrong. In theory, that should transparently redirect alice.html to bob.html. Now for some reason alice.html (non-existant page btw) displays:

Options +FollowSymLinks Options +Indexes RewriteEngine on RewriteBase /var/www/html/domain/ RewriteRule ^alice.html$ bob.html

So.. yeah I'm stumped

 

[Decker]

alice.html was me - sorry forgot to delete it

I've had a go to and can't for the life of me work out why it doesn't redirect, the module is loading and it should work.

It's not my best subject though but I know there are some around here that are ---- hot at it.

 

[themoose]

Sorted! 'AllowOverride' was disabled in httpd.conf.