How to enable mod rewrite in Apache 1.3

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I have been having troubles getting mod rewrite to enable using Apache 1.3

 

I have done some searching around forums and other websites and they say to check these thing which I have done

 

Uncomment this line

 

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

 

and also as it says in the httpd.conf file i uncommented this line

 

AddModule mod_rewrite.c

 

I have also chnaged this

 

<Directory />

    Options FollowSymLinks

    AllowOverride All

</Directory>

 

and as suggested here http://datakoncepts.com/seo (under test) i created 3 files, test.php, test.html and a .htaccess file but i renamed the test file to index so i can put them in my htdocs directory.

 

HTML:

<h2>This is the HTML file.</h2>

 

PHP:

<h2>This is the PHP file.</h2>

 

.HTACCESS

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?index\.html$ index.php [L]
# RewriteRule tests for matches with the {REQUEST_URI} string

 

When I open localhost all that is diaplyed is "This is the HTML file." which I presume means mod rewrite isn't enabled