Hello list, I am running debian lenny box with apache2 and mod_rewrite enabled. I confirm that rewrite rules are working well with the default /var/www directory which is my document root. I have one more config with alias like ````````````````````````````````````````````````` Alias /personal/joydeep /var/personal_work_area/joydeep DocumentRoot /var/personal_work_area/ <Directory /var/personal_work_area/joydeep/> DirectoryIndex index.php Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` and the .htaccess is as below ````````````````````````````````````````````` Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^alice.html$ bob.html `````````````````````````````````````````````` the page bob.html works fine. But when I visit alice.html as http://192.168.1.1/personal/joydeep/test/alice.html it reports `````````````` The requested URL /index.php was not found on this server. ``````````````````` Though the same thing work well under /var/www . I am really confused here. Could any one please enlighten me ? any mistake ? Thanks for bearing with me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx