problem getting mod_rewrite to work

I am trying to get mod_rewrite to work on my server. I'm using Apache 2.0 with Red Had Linux. I developed some rules on my dev box that worked fine, but when I tried modifying my live server, it was not even attempting to apply the rewrite rules.

I tried making a very basic rule just to see the rewrite work on my live server with:

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

RewriteEngine on
RewriteLog logs/rewrite
RewriteLogLevel 9
RewriteRule ^/foobar/$ /newfoobar [PT]

and it does not write anything to the rewrite log nor does it rewrite the url. It just gives me a 404 error in the error log because /foobar does not exist.

There are no other references to RewriteEngine in any of the conf files. Any help on why this is not working would be much appreciated!

-Mike

 

I inserted it in the http.conf file before any of the virtualHost directives.

-Mike

 

You must put

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteLog logs/rewrite
RewriteLogLevel 9
RewriteRule ^/foobar/$ /newfoobar [PT]

into the virtual hosts, otherwise it wil work only for the server's main web site.