It's not rewriting...

[melchior]

Right now I'm just running my own apache server on my computer and I'm trying to protect my scripts using mod_rewrite. I uncommented all the mod_rewrite lines in the apache configuration file and restarted it all. I got no errors doing this, so I assume it compiled fine.

The problem is, I can put a rewrite rule in the httpd.conf file or a .htaccess file but it never rewrites any URLs... For example:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/woot$ /beta

I tried that as a test in a .htaccess file and put it in my root C:\htdocs folder. I went to http://localhost/woot but it didn't show anything, gave me a 404. I went to http://localhost/beta and it showed exactly what it was supposed to. I assume it's something I'm doing wrong with my code, but I've followed this sitepoint article to the point pretty much. Any help here would be greatly appreciated...