apache2 - mod_rewrite not working

[Grimnar]

Trying to fight some referrer spam I have some rewrite rules that I want to set out in life.
But it turns out my mod_rewrite is not cooperating the way I want.

This is the setup:

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<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin admin@domain.tld
        ServerName www.domain.tld
        ServerAlias domain.tld
        DocumentRoot /var/www/domain.tld/

      <Directory /var/www/domain.tld>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride all
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
      </Directory>
      CustomLog /var/log/apache2/domain_access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

And to test if the rewrite is working Im using this code in /var/www/domain.tld/.htaccess

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule testpage\.html http://www.google.com [R]

Now as soon as I enable RewriteEngine on, the domain.tld page gives me Error - Forbidden
And as everyone know, checking error-logs will give some answer. But no, nothing here! This is what error.log gives me:

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192.168.0.20 - - [20/Jun/2012:12:49:04 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 519 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0"

/etc/apache2/mods-enabled:

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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  30 Jun 20 12:18 rewrite.load -> ../mods-available/rewrite.load

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cat rewrite.load 
LoadModule rewrite_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_rewrite.so

So, what is going on here?

Yeah, Tried a2dismod rewrite / a2enmod rewrite - still nothing.

tl;tr Turing RewriteEngine On = breaks server.

[subhuman]

i'm not quite certain, but it may help if you swap ServerName and ServerAlias:

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ServerName domain.tld
ServerAlias www.domain.tld

however, you will certainly find the correct answer on http://httpd.apache.org/.

[Grimnar]

haha, THAT was it! God damn! That little detail

[dasein]

haha, THAT was it!

People who use search engines to find answers to problems would receive great benefit if you would take a moment to mark your thread as SOLVED. (Edit the subject line of your initial post.)

[Grimnar]

Hold your horses, Im not quite satisfied yet. Something is still breaking the system!

Im planning to have a /var/www/.htaccess as a master .htacess and let everybody else use it iva rewrite inherit.
Thus, I think I need to have the 000-default active, and it seems to break the Rewriteengine.

Is it something wrong here?
(The other vhosts are in /var/www/domain2.tld /var/www/domain3.tld etc.

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<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin admin@domain.tld
        DocumentRoot /var/www/
        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride All
        </Directory>
        <Directory /var/www/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride all
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>
        ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
        LogLevel debug
        LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %<s %b" common
        CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

[subhuman]

The DocumentRoot should be specified without a trailing slash.

found in: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html - shall we read it to you?