URL Shortener, htaccess problem

[rabatos]

For the URL shortener tutorial I can't seem to get the code in the htaccess file to work.

I entered:
[syntax=text]RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9]+)$ go.php?key=$1[/syntax]

and when I enter, http://website.com/2 I just get a 404 error, and am not redirected to the go.php page at all.

[jacek]

Is the file correctly named ? It should be .htaccess with the . at the start.

[rabatos]

Actually I've solved the problem.

The .htaccess file is fine because I've used it before for ErrorDocuments

I found it was a / before go.php I needed like so:

RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9]+)$ /go.php?key=$1 [L]

[jacek]

Ah okay, I probably would not have suggested that so thanks for posting the answer back