I'm using Apache/2.2.15 (Win32) PHP/5.3.2 on Windows NT PC1484-VM21 5.1 build 2600 (Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3) i586 this is my httpd.conf LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so Code (markup): I have the following file C:\apache\htdocs\rewrite\.htaccess Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^silly\.html$ /exists.html [L] Code (markup): navigating to http://localhost/rewrite/silly.html gives a Not Found The requested URL /rewrite/silly.html was not found on this server. Code (markup): phpinfo() tells me that the module is reallty loaded access.log 127.0.0.1 - - [19/Mar/2010:15:36:32 -0300] "GET /rewrite/silly.html HTTP/1.1" 404 216 127.0.0.1 - - [19/Mar/2010:15:36:32 -0300] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 209 any idea?