mod rewrite not working in online server

[frank1]

we have htaccess file as this
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /new

RewriteRule ^.*/.*-news([0-9]+)\.html$ http://www.xyz.com/new/news.php?news_id=$1

RewriteRule ^.*/.*-article([0-9]+)\.html$ http://www.xyz.net/new/article.php?article_id=$1 [L]


This works fine in localhost..
in online server...
after mod rewrite..(then we click on rewritten html link) it is again directed to php page ie news/news.php?news_idp=1

i think the mod rewrite is on in server as html redirect is not failing...
so where can be problem...please help

[commandos]

what server are you using ?

maybe it's IIS ?

[Stormrider]

Well IIS doesn't have mod_rewrite, it's an apache module, and it doesn't use .htaccess files.

This would probably be better off being asked in the apache forum - I don't know enough about mod_rewrite, maybe it has some options that are different?