This is what my rewrite rules look like they worked just fine on Apache 3.* but can not get them to work on httpd 2
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Have you tried adding the following to httpd.conf?
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so RewriteEngine On
What does httpd say when you restart it after adding this?
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