root@laptop:/var/www# ls -l .htaccess 
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 139 2006-06-14 11:02 .htaccess
root@laptop:/var/www# a2enmod rewrite
This module is already enabled!
root@laptop:/var/www# /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload
 * Reloading web server config apache2                                                                                        5907
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName


Not Found

The requested URL /testing was not found on this server.
Apache/2.2.4 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.3-1ubuntu6.3 Server at localhost Port 80