I posted a problem I was having in the beginner's area at http://forum.modrewrite.com/viewtopic.php?t=5159 but there is too much spam in there. Anyways, I tried a few of the tutorials to see if mod rewrite is working but no matter what I try nothing works, not even the examples given in the FAQ. I went into httpd.conf and verified it was turned on according to the walk through but after modifying my code to display index.html?id=1 in the urls and I use the code in the tut it still does not work. Any pointers on where to look or what to try to resolve the problem?
I am running xampp on a windows pc if that helps any, sorry I dont know more about this stuff to give more info.
*UPDATE*
Here is the code in my .htaccess file for my latest testing, aside from the addtype it is from the tutorial by richardk (How to change a numeric ID into a name/title. )
AddType application/x-httpd-php .htm
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index/([0-9]+)-[^/]+\.html$ /index.php?id=$1 [QSA,L]
*UPDATE 2*
Sigh, not even the google one works, it gives an error 500
*UPDATE 3*
Duh, xampp by default doesn't have mod rewrite installed, I assumed since it was such an important feature with apache that it would have been included. Here is a link to a walkthrough to turn it on in the event anyone ever needs it.
http://rudyegenias.wordpress.com/2006/08/21/enabling-mod-rewrite-in-xampp/