LAMP Server and Mod_Rewrite

[Scott]

I recently setup a web server on my computer with Apache, MySQL, and PHP on Kubuntu. I am just looking to make a little testing server but I have some troubles.

I have enabled mod_rewrite (and restarted the server) but it doesn't appear to be working even though the PHP function apache_get_modules() (and phpinfo()) shows it as loaded. I also don't see any errors in the server error.log.

I have the exact same mod_rewrite rules being used and working on the LLP servers and other servers, so what could be wrong?
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[krt]

Make sure your .htaccess is being parsed. Add a line at the top with an "x" or something that will cause a syntax error which should give you a 500 error. If not, then make sure AllowOverrides is set properly, e.g.

[Scott]

Thanks for the reply.

The original problem seems to be it wasn't reading .htaccess but then I changed the file to have it set as "AllowOverrides All", so now I will get an internal server error if I type something random in .htaccess.

Now for some reason the mod_rewrite won't work for parsing variables from the URL. What I mean is http://localhost/page/ will work (if it were being rewritten to page.php), but http://localhost/page/variable/ won't read the variable (it won't rewrite it to something like page.php?var=val).

I don't think it is a syntax problem because these exact rules work on LLP and other servers. Here is an example of a rule that isn't working:

[krt]

Trying your rewrite rule here, will report back.

Ok, here is what happens here:
testing/users/test
is mapped incorrectly to:
testing/home/httpd/html/users.php?userid=test

The common cause of this is the lack of a proper RewriteBase or lack of absolute target paths.

Using:

[Scott]

Well the strange thing is the rules that work look almost identical, just without any variables.

For example this rule works