mod rewrite on testing home server not working.....RewriteBase?
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This isn't about getting my rewrite rules to work because on the host it works and there's no problem there.

I have installed Apache 2.4, PHP 5.4 and MySQL on a local machine so i can work on my site before committing any changes to the hosting server.

I have enabled mod rewrite and know it's installed etc (phpinfo).  I think the problem may be to do with the rewrite base.

I have more than one site in my htdocs folder.  The screenshot is my "operation" folder in htdocs

![My folder Operation in htdocs directory][1]

This is the first part of my .htaccess file

    Options +FollowSymLinks
    Options +Indexes
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteBase /operation/

    RewriteRule ^admin$ admin/ [R,L]

I added operation/ to the rewrite base to get it to start from there but it doesn't work.

How can i set itt up so if required every site folder can have .htaccess at it's root?

  [1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/RGFn0.png