I have tried various combinations of a test to learn mod_rewrite. Finally, I have tried the most simple .htaccess file I could discover:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule goober index.html [NC, R, L]
Not only does this not work (e.g. http://www.allgoodtech.com/goober) but it causes an 500 error for everything including the root (http://www.allgoodtech.com).
I thought this might be a hosting issue, so I called the host who claims that mod rewrite is enabled in the http.conf.
Then I tried exactly the same code above on a different hosting service with exactly the same results.
I would love to use mod_rewrite but can't get even the simplest thing to work!
What am I missing?
Thanks,
Colin Elligsen