URL Rewriting doesn't rewrite automatically

Question

I have this simple redirection on my website and it does not rewrite my url automatically, I have to type manual other URL to access it, what could be the problem, do I need

Answer 1

check your apache config (httpd.conf) see whether it allowing to overriding the htaccess

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/htaccess.html