mod_rewrite on debian sarge

I am trying to enable apache2 mod_rewrite for wordpress and am having some troubles. Here is what I have done (I added logging, but it doesn’t work.

I did a2enmod rewrite

I added these lines to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf almost at the bottom, right before the sites-enabled wildcard:

[code]
RewriteEngine On
RewriteLog "/var/log/apache2/rewrite_log"
RewriteLogLevel 9
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I then changed the permalink structure in wordpress to this:

[code]
/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
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I took the code they gave me and put it in a .htaccess file in the same directory as wordpress’ index.php
[code]
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
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Then reloaded the web server:

[code]
/etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload
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everything reloaded fine.

I go to the blog, and the first pages loads fine (because of the directory index). Then I click a link and get a File Not Found error. Here is the log.

[code]
[Thu Dec 14 23:11:46 2006] [error] [client 24.116.186.97] File does not exist: /var/www/timbo.name/hi.i.am/2006, referer: https://hi.i.am.timbo.name/
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Looks like it isn’t rewriting! Can anyone think what I am doing wrong?