mod_rewrite installed and working in other places but here....

[iarp]

I use wordpress, and i thought it used mod_rewrite to change my url's from index.php?post=178 to something like /2008/may/<post-name>

 

So i ran into this tut http://www.workingwith.me.uk/articles/scripting/mod_rewrite and it looked promising.

 

I wrote up alice.html http://www.iarp.ca/test/alice.html

and i wrote up bob.html http://www.iarp.ca/test/bob.html

 

i set this in .htaccess:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^alice.html$ bob.html

 

But it just wouldn't work. So i kept searching and ran into an actual online generator and got this:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^([^/]*)\.newb$ /index.php?id=$1 [L]

 

Now that works on another site i have (same host and server) but it's a static www.domain.com/#.html and i'm looking for ways to have links like www.domain.com/rep/home/ rather then www.domain.com/index.php?id=34 (which would change into domain.com/34.html)