URL rewriting not working on localhost

[VIPStephan]

hmm, I can’t seem to get pretty URLs working on my local server, I just get “404” errors. The default httpd.conf has this:

<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
</Directory>

and then I have a user specific config file where I have this:

Options +Includes
<Directory "/Users/[user name]/Sites/">
    Options Indexes MultiViews +Includes
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "/Users/[user name]/Sites/example"
    ServerName example.dev
</VirtualHost>
…
(more virtual host names here)
…

This Sites directory is basically the web root of my local server. In that I have different sub directories for all my testing sites. These sites have .htaccess files in their root directories where the rewriting is defined, among other things. It is obviously rewriting and the error log has no errors except the 404s. What’s my problem?

[tipsmail7]

The line "AllowOverride None" would prevent Apache to read .htaccess

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod...#allowoverride

[VIPStephan]

This is definitely not the problem because the .htaccess file is being read; as I said, it is rewriting the URL, it’s just not showing the page. If I change AllowOverride to All I’m getting error 403 instead of 404 – not much achieved here.

Any other possibilities?

Edit: I’m sorry, I was (partly) wrong. I do indeed have to change AllowOverride to All but I also had to add FollowSymLinks to the Options rule. It’s working now, woohoo!