Drubuntu

If you have installed Drubuntu (including/especially using my D7-ready sandbox), it is possible that the permissions will not be set correctly on /etc/apache2/sites-available/drubuntu

tail -f /var/log/apache2/error.log had segfaults in it
checking where

Giving that file read access

Need to fix in Drubuntu

1. (Some) Drush scripts writing with no read permissions
2. NetworkManager rewriting /etc/resolv.conf

this line needs to be added at the top via sudo vi /etc/resolv.conf:
nameserver 127.0.0.1

See http://data.agaric.com/fixing-network-manager-overwriting-dns for the lasting fix.

... and then when i finally tried the same rules -- ones like shown in the resources below -- they worked fine.

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-htaccess-to-301-redirect-not-working
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html

This is for Ubuntu 10.10 with the intention of doing primarily Drupal 7 development.

Get the link to the current version of Drubuntu from the Drubuntu project page, and use it thusly:

wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drubuntu-7.x-10.10-beta1.tar.gz
tar -xzf drubuntu-7.x-10.10-beta1.tar.gz